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Rakuten Mobile originally planned to end KDDI roaming at the end of September 2026, but decided to partially continue it in order to maintain communication quality in areas with insufficient coverage.
Rakuten Mobile once again announced on September 5th that it will support KDDI roaming from October onwards.
Regarding the roaming contract, we are currently in "final discussions" with KDDI, but in areas where Rakuten Mobile will take time to cover, roaming will continue after October 2026. Additionally, roaming will be reduced in areas that are sufficiently covered by Rakuten Mobile.
Rakuten Mobile will continue working to expand the Rakuten Mobile network area and improve network quality.
Rakuten Mobile's KDDI roaming was originally scheduled to end at the end of September 2026, but at a KDDI financial results conference on August 7, 2026, President Hiroji Matsuda commented that he intended to ``cooperate in maintaining the infrastructure in some rural areas by dividing them into areas and periods.''
Furthermore, on August 12, Rakuten Group Chairman and President Hiroshi Mikitani announced on his official X account that roaming would continue in some areas from October onwards, an unusual situation. Therefore, it can be seen that continuing roaming is a matter of life and death in maintaining Rakuten Mobile's communication quality.
The areas in which roaming will continue have not been announced, but from October onwards, it will likely be possible to prevent the situation where Rakuten Mobile cannot connect at all in the existing roaming areas to some extent.

As an island nation that relies on ships for 99% of its overseas trade, Japan is the second largest LNG importer in the world, and the public and private sectors are working together to revitalize the shipbuilding industry. We will include a shipbuilding revitalization fund in the supplementary budget and aim to build 3 to 5 LNG carriers a year from 2035 onwards.
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