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Rakuten Mobile Faces Surging Costs and Capital Expenditure Spike Amid KDDI Roaming Cutoff
By Iain Morris, International Editor, Light Reading November 13, 2026 The construction of new mobile sites remains a relentless, seemingly never-ending undertaking for Rakuten Mobile, the loss-making Japanese telecommunications carrier that has continually struggled to make a decisive commercial impact on the highly competitive domestic market. Six years ago, when the ambitious greenfield operator was…
