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Telco/Internet specialist

Kirk Boodry

Redex Research

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Rakuten's successful junk bond sale means the Rakuten Bank IPO will happen next year and not in December as some had feared</li>
<li>More detail on mobile shows that network costs including D&amp;A are 4x that of service revenue and slightly higher QoQ. Roaming alone is higher than service revenue </li>
<li>And that means Rakuten can't aggressively go after new subscribers unless it wants operating losses to accelerate. Bad for Rakuten but good news for incumbents KDDI, NTT and Softbank. </li>
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Rakuten's successful junk bond sale means the Rakuten Bank IPO will happen next year and not in December as some had feared
More detail on mobile shows that network costs including D&amp;A are 4x that of service revenue and slightly higher QoQ. Roaming alone is higher than service revenue 
And that means Rakuten can't aggressively go after new subscribers unless it wants operating losses to accelerate. Bad for Rakuten but good news for incumbents KDDI, NTT and Softbank. 


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