KDDI and Rakuten have announced an agreement to utilize each other’s assets in telecommunication, payment and logistics to improve customer experience and further strengthen their competitiveness in these fields. The deal will allow Rakuten to use KDDI’s network to enter the mobile market, while KDDI can make use of Rakuten’s payment and logistics infrastructure.
The Analyst Team

Jun Wen Woo
Senior Analyst, TV & Online Video
As part of Omdia’s consumer team, Jun Wen Woo covers pay-TV and online video markets in the Asia Pacific region. Her main research interests are subscription pay TV and online video (SVoD). Jun Wen provides analysis of the key developments in the media landscape in Asia Pacific through extensive research and consultancy work as well as published commentaries and reports.
She joined Omdia (formerly IHS Markit) in 2014. Prior to this role, she was involved in mobile content and services research, covering over-the-top messaging and communications apps and ways in which mobile content providers can best monetize mobile media. Jun Wen holds a master’s degree in applied statistics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Malaya.

Sivalingam Muniandi
Research Manager
As part of Omdia's research operation team, Sivalingam Muniandi leads the projects from the service provider, consumer, and enterprise market sectors, with a specific interest in telecom operator multi-play strategies, subscriber and revenue trends, new service rollouts, regulatory developments, telco merger and acquisition activity, and pay TV.
Prior to joining Omdia, formerly IHS Markit, Siva worked as a senior research analyst, covering telecoms and pay TV in Asia Pacific. He also worked at Maxis Berhad, Malaysia as a business analyst on the regional sales team. During his time there, Siva was responsible for data mining, KPI and sales performance reporting, market research, competitor insights, trade management, vendor management, and compliance control.
Siva holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons.) in multimedia systems from Wawasan Open University, Malaysia. He is currently pursuing the Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration and is based in Penang, Malaysia.
Thank you
Our expert analysts will review your question and the Ask an Analyst team will get back to you. We aim to respond within 24 hours, but we’re often quicker.
Ask an Analyst
Our team of experts are here to answer your questions. From advice on market trends to a query on research point, and everything in between, we want to hear from you.
Ask an analyst is available as part of a subscription. If you'd like access, contact us today.