Rakuten, the newcomer telco in Japan, has decided to use NEC base-stations says the Nikkei. Costing $76k each, the base-stations are reported to be only 10-20% of the cost being incurred by rival telco NTT DoCoMo. Rakuten will also reduce costs through network virtualization so minimizing the need for hardware. Next week, Japan’s Cabinet is ...

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