{"id":1967,"date":"2009-01-25T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T04:41:08","slug":"rakuten-to-start-phs-service-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/rakuten-to-start-phs-service-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten to start PHS service in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1964\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rakuten.gif\" alt=\"Rakuten\" width=\"100\" height=\"47\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1965\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fusioncommnucations.gif\" alt=\"Fusion Communications\" width=\"88\" height=\"52\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1966\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/willcom.gif\" alt=\"Willcom\" width=\"220\" height=\"13\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten.co.jp\">Rakuten[J]<\/a>,\u00a0 Japan&#8217;s largest e-commerce player, unveiled that it is planning to start a PHS (personal handy-phone system) service as an MVNO (or mobile virtual network operator) for its corporate users this coming April.<br \/>\nJointly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusioncom.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Fusion Communications<\/a>, and under a roaming agreement with Japanese PHS operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willcom-inc.com\/en\/\">Willcom<\/a>, Rakuten intends to provide free mobile phone service for making calls from Rakuten PHS handsets to fixed-line phones and to other PHS handsets, without setting up its own wireless facilities.<br \/>\nFusion Communications, a Rakuten subsidiary, is an IP-based phone carrier and was acquired from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tepco.co.jp\/en\/index-e.html\">Tokyo Electric Power<\/a> in 2007.<br \/>\nLeading Japanese MVNOs are <a href=\"http:\/\/disneymobile.jp\/index.html\">Disney Mobile[J]<\/a>, which the Walt Disney Company operates in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/en\/\">Softbank Mobile<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-com.co.jp\/en\/index.html\">Japan Communications<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmobile.ne.jp\/english\/3g.html\">b-mobile<\/a> which uses Willcom&#8217;s and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/english\/\">NTT-DoCoMo<\/a>&#8216;s wireless platforms.<br \/>\nProofread by: Sean O&#8217;Hagan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakuten[J],\u00a0 Japan&#8217;s largest e-commerce player, unveiled that it is planning to start a PHS (personal handy-phone system) service as an MVNO (or mobile virtual network operator) for its corporate users this coming April. Jointly with Fusion Communications, and under a roaming agreement with Japanese PHS operator Willcom, Rakuten intends to provide free mobile phone service&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/rakuten-to-start-phs-service-in-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rakuten to start PHS service in April<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,24],"tags":[1289,2479,2873,3047,4091],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-news","tag-fusion-communications","tag-mvno","tag-phs","tag-rakuten","tag-willcom","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}