Rakuten Mobile signs roaming deal with KDDI

As part of a new roaming agreement, KDDI will provide roaming services to competing Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile for the next three years.
Rakuten will now lean on KDDI’s network in areas such as high-traffic shopping districts in Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya, on top of an existing roaming agreement covering indoor locations such as subways, underground shopping centres, tunnels, and rural areas. The new roaming agreement comes into effect in June 20