BARCELONA: Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten plans to become Japan's fourth mobile operator this year with what its says is the world's first fully cloud-based mobile network, creating a potential template for international expansion.
Rakuten, which started out as a two-man outfit in 1997 and has grown to post annual revenues of US$10bil (RM40.70bil), is already trialling the network with early users as it looks to run mobile services in a scalable, low-cost way.
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