Rakuten Mobile crawls past the five million subscriber mark
Japanese greenfield MNO Rakuten Mobile has reached a subscriber milestone but is still a long way from where it needs to be.
Japanese greenfield MNO Rakuten Mobile has reached a subscriber milestone but is still a long way from where it needs to be.
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten’s mobile operation is slowly heading in the right direction, but the same can’t be said for its network solutions arm.
The Open RAN movement has lost one of its most vocal players after Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin left the company with no warning and little fanfare.
Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten has boarded the generative AI hype train, establishing an all-encompassing partnership with OpenAI.
Kyivstar parent Veon has brought in Rakuten Symphony to assist with the reconstruction of its infrastructure in Ukraine.
As part of a new roaming agreement, KDDI will provide roaming services to competing Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile for the next three years.
Japanese tech and media giant Rakuten is hoping its new customer experience centre will persuade European operators to move to Open RAN technology.
Operator to open facility in the UK next year dedicated to promoting and demonstrating Open RAN.
Operator Rakuten Mobile has snapped up a license to perform mobile communication tests and preliminary verification in Japan using AST SpaceMobile’s low earth orbit satellite, BlueWalker 3.
An Open RAN deployment collaboratively set up by VMO2, NEC and Rakuten is entering the ‘field phase’ with the activation of the first live sites in VMO2’s commercial network.
Rakuten Symphony plans to build a new innovation lab in India designed both to increase its own presence in the market and to boost the country’s position on the global technology stage.
INTERVIEW: We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony, who explained the dangers of ‘doing the new thing the old way’, his thoughts on OpenRAN, political pressure on telecoms, and more.
Finish kit vendor Nokia and Japanese MNO Rakuten have demonstrated a live 1Tbps per channel transmission, which they claim represents a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten’s existing fibre network.
A ‘legacy way of thinking’ is stifling innovation in the telcoms industry, and operators will need to adopt new business models in order to not be relegated to utility providers, claims Rakuten.
Rakuten’s OpenRAN-focused venture Symphony rose above the cacophony of announcements at MWC with a flurry of partnerships and a bit of M&A for good measure.
Japan-based Rakuten Symphony doesn’t want to play second fiddle in the European OpenRAN market.
Rakuten Mobile’s OpenRAN effort is going up-tempo, thanks to its most recent corporate rejig.
Japanese mobile upstart Rakuten has teamed up with the University of Tokyo to look into whether low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can feasibly offer a direct connection to IoT devices.
Rakuten Mobile is growing its customer base, but the cost of building a new national mobile network is still taking a significant toll on its finances.
Two relative RAN outsiders will develop next-gen DU for Rakuten Mobile’s ‘end-to-end’ virtualized mobile proposition abroad.