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.
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Rakuten reports improving mobile metrics, but Symphony slides
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.
Rakuten Symphony hits duff note with CEO’s abrupt exit
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.
Rakuten taps OpenAI for ‘state-of-the-art’ use cases
Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten has boarded the generative AI hype train, establishing an all-encompassing partnership with OpenAI.
Veon eyes Open RAN for Ukraine rebuild
Kyivstar parent Veon has brought in Rakuten Symphony to assist with the reconstruction of its infrastructure in Ukraine.
Rakuten Mobile signs roaming deal with KDDI
As part of a new roaming agreement, KDDI will provide roaming services to competing Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile for the next three years.
Rakuten opens European Open RAN hub in the UK
Japanese tech and media giant Rakuten is hoping its new customer experience centre will persuade European operators to move to Open RAN technology.
Rakuten plans UK Open RAN customer experience centre
Operator to open facility in the UK next year dedicated to promoting and demonstrating Open RAN.
Rakuten gets license for LEO satellite tests
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.
VMO2, NEC and Rakuten activate Open RAN sites in UK
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 launches Indian Open RAN initiative
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.
Rakuten: ‘This is the most important industry and it shouldn’t be left to chance’
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.
Nokia and Rakuten complete 1 Terabit fibre network trial
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.
The telecoms industry has an innovation problem – Rakuten
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 Symphony makes itself heard with Robin.io acquisition
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.
Rakuten Symphony wants to play to a larger audience in Europe
Japan-based Rakuten Symphony doesn’t want to play second fiddle in the European OpenRAN market.
OpenRAN takes centre stage as Rakuten orchestrates Symphony spin-off
Rakuten Mobile’s OpenRAN effort is going up-tempo, thanks to its most recent corporate rejig.
Rakuten investigates LEO-based satellite IoT tech
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 loses close to $1 billion in Q3
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.
Intel and Juniper make beautiful music with Rakuten
Two relative RAN outsiders will develop next-gen DU for Rakuten Mobile’s ‘end-to-end’ virtualized mobile proposition abroad.
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