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Rakuten Mobile has recently started R&D on the advancement of edge platform functions for the next communication standard after 5G Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said that its research and development …

Fujitsu said the SoftBank deployment included the former’s next-generation optical transmission platform “1 FINITY Ultra Optical System T900” Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank recently completed the nationwide deployment, in core areas, …

KDDI and Samsung successfully completed SLA assurance network slicing on a live 5G SA network in Tokyo in January Korean vendor Samsung Electronics and Japanese carrier KDDI have signed a …

KDDI said the agreement will enhance its cellular connectivity to areas beyond the limits of current 4G and 5G networks Japanese carrier KDDI and SpaceX announced an agreement to provide …

UnaBiz has signed with KDDI-owned Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with the Singapore-based Sigfox-owner already, to resell its global cellular IoT airtime as part of its burgeoning ‘universal LPWAN’ …

Ericsson will support KDDI in deploying ‘manhole-shaped’ 5G base stations, supplying sub-terrain antennas Japanese operator KDDI has selected Ericsson for the deployment of what it claims to be the country’s …

The deal includes high-traffic shopping districts in Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile signed a new three-year roaming agreement with rival operator …

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom is partnering with US-based IoT platform provider Simetric to offer customers a single cloud management layer for their various IoT projects. Simetric offers management of …

Watching the evolution of telco carrier RAN networks feels like viewing a sports replay in slow motion. It’s interesting to see, and there are often angles and perspectives that crop …

MWC 2023: The GSMA has announced a framework of universal network application programmable interfaces (APIs) to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. At launch, at the annual MWC …

AWS has opened a new shopfront and for operator partners to hawk their private LTE (4G) and 5G solutions to enterprises, to be combined with its own cloud-to-edge compute services …

KDDI has started to deploy 5G vRAN sites in the city of Osaka last month Wind River announced that its Wind River Studio is being used by Japanese operator KDDI …

Samsung noted that the 5G core will enable KDDI to optimize network slicing Samsung Electronics announced the company has been selected by Japanese telco KDDI to provide its cloud-native 5G …

The government of Japan is considering to auction mmWave spectrum Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is aiming to launch a 5G spectrum auction in early 2026, Japanese …

KDDI has been developing O-RAN compliant 5G Open vRAN sites using Samsung’s virtualized solutions Japanese operator KDDI announced that, in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and Fujitsu, it initiated commercial deployment …

Samsung said that the trial took place in Tokyo during Q4 2022 Samsung Electronics and Japanese operator KDDI asay that they have successfully achieved Service Level Agreement (SLA) assurance network …

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of …

KDDI-owned Soracom is offering “native support” for satellite messaging with its global IoT connectivity offer, so enterprise IoT users can pay for both terrestrial and satellite connectivity in a single …

Nokia said that the AI RF capacity planning solution is part of Nokia’s AVA software offering Nokia announced that it has deployed its artificial intelligence (AI) radio frequency (RF) capacity …

KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten Mobile and Softbank have all deployed mmWave 5G Right now mmWave 5G deployments are focused on adding capacity to congested network hot zones, places like stadiums, …

KDDI-owned Soracom is offering satellite IoT connectivity via its global IoT connectivity platform, following a deal with Switzerland-based nanosatellite operator Astrocast. The deal enables Soracom to offer a “blended IoT …

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with …

The top ten mobile operators reported a combined active base of 1.8 billion cellular IoT subscribers at the end of 2021   The global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased …

Japanese mobile network operator KDDI suffered an equipment failure this past weekend that caused what it says is its biggest outage ever.

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with new Sigfox-owner UnaBiz, has expanded its partner network into the Americas and Europe, it has said, including via its …