{"id":148283,"date":"2019-07-09T18:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=250030"},"modified":"2019-07-09T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:35:31","slug":"dmm-com-deal-brings-subs-to-rakuten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/09\/dmm-com-deal-brings-subs-to-rakuten\/","title":{"rendered":"DMM.com deal brings subs to Rakuten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tE-commerce giant Rakuten stepped up its preparations to become Japan\u2019s fourth full mobile network operator, inking a JPY2.3 billion ($21.1 million) deal which will bring in customers currently using a rival MVNO and broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>The company will take on businesses operated by e-commerce and web company DMM.com from 1 September, delivering a boost in subscriber numbers a month before Rakuten steps up [1] from its current MVNO service in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rakuten explained the deal covers MVNO DMM mobile and virtual internet service DMM Hikari. The former uses NTT Docomo\u2019s 3G and 4G infrastructure and had around 240,000 subscribers at end-June. The web service runs on fibre operated by NTT Hikari, with about 20,000 users at the same point.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond simply adding to its user base, Rakuten explained it is also working on plans to \u201cmaximise synergy with the other services and business[es] in the Rakuten Ecosystem,\u201d including loyalty schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Rakuten is gearing up to deploy a virtualised RAN [2] when it launches its full network in October, with NEC on board [3] to provide 5G equipment for the move.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/asia-home-banner\/japanese-authorities-approve-rakuten-mobile-move\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/rakuten-backs-vran-provider-ahead-of-japan-launch\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/rakuten-mobile-forges-5g-deal-with-nec\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce giant Rakuten stepped up its preparations to become Japan&rsquo;s fourth full mobile network operator, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/dmm-com-deal-brings-subs-to-rakuten\/\">DMM.com deal brings subs to Rakuten<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/09\/dmm-com-deal-brings-subs-to-rakuten\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,2832,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-CzF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}