The Rakuten Group, which has been experiencing severe business results due to heavy investment in the mobile phone business, has announced plans to fully enter corporate services from the 30th of this month.
The Rakuten Group made a full-scale entry into the mobile phone business in 2020, and the investment in base station construction increased, and the final profit and loss for the nine months from January to September last year was a deficit of 258 billion yen. increase.
Rakuten Group President Hiroshi Mikitani will start a mobile phone service for corporations on the 30th of this month at an event for managers who will open a store on their own mail order site on the 26th, and will introduce a flat rate plan according to the data capacity. made it clear.
We would like to strengthen this field by increasing the number of corporate service subscribers, targeting store managers who open stores on our own mail order site and users of group services.
President Mikitani said, ``There is a high possibility that Rakuten Mobile will become a mobile phone company that surpasses the three major companies. I called.
The Rakuten Group is promoting the rationalization of management, such as showing a policy to close about 200 stores opened in post offices nationwide by April this year, and entering services for corporations. The focus will be on whether this will lead to improved earnings.