Loyalty Points In Japan: More Loyalty, More Points and the Conduit to Cashless Payments
Japan has a vast number of competing loyalty programmes and until five years ago Japanese consumers would often have as many as 10 loyalty point...
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Smartkarma’s Week That Was in JP/KR: Aruhi, Rakuten-Lyft, Ecopro BM, & English Annual Reports
KOSPI is up 9.4% and Nikkei is up 7.8% YTD. It has been an active first two months of 2019. Many stocks have retraced to the previous resistance...
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Value-Enhancing 5G Spectrum Allocations on the Way for KDDI, DoCoMo, Softbank and Rakuten
The Ministry of Industry Affairs and Communications (MIC, the regulator) will allocate 2.2 GHz of new spectrum bandwidth by the end of March equal...
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Growing MVNO Market Share in Japan Looks Positive for Evolving Entrants like Rakuten (4755 JP)
In the latest data, MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators) have reached 7.0% market share of Japan's main 3G and LTE (4G) services with over 12m...
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Smartkarma’s Week that Was in JP/KR: BGF, Japan Telcos, NCSoft, Nissan, and Nexon
After a holiday hiatus where markets were slow and somewhat quiet and the number of insights published and read dipped, we resume your regularly...
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