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<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/31" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31:1">Rakuten (4755 JP)</a> announced in mid December that it would look to enter the Japan mobile industry and would apply for spectrum in the current FY17 allocation in hopes of leveraging its MVNO (currently they have 1.4m subs) to become the fourth mobile operator. It announced plans for a ¥600bn investment out to 2025 with the focus on 4G services. At the time, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/1920" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="accounts:1920">Kirk Boodry</a> thought this would not be overly disruptive. That has not stopped share prices falling at both the incumbents and at Rakuten and…</p>

Rakuten (4755 JP) announced in mid December that it would look to enter the Japan mobile industry and would apply for spectrum in the current FY17 allocation in hopes of leveraging its MVNO (currently they have 1.4m subs) to become the fourth mobile operator. It announced plans for a ¥600bn investment out to 2025 with the focus on 4G services. At the time, Kirk Boodry thought this would not be overly disruptive. That has not stopped share prices falling at both the incumbents and at Rakuten and…

NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) (9432 JP)

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