BROWSING: Rakuten Mobile

In a cloud-native world, the OSS should serve as an app store filled with tools for automation, orchestration, workflow engines and more Rakuten Group, with its operator Rakuten Mobile and hardware/software/services vendor subsidiary Rakuten Symphony, don’t live in the legacy world. The greenfield network is...

The new AI-driven use cases will enable Rakuten Mobile to maintain quality of service and drive efficient network operations and network automation monitoring Radcom has renewed its multi-year collaboration with Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, the former said in a release. The company noted that the extended...

Kyivstar aims to use Rakuten Symphony’s O-RAN and 5G technologies to help rebuild Ukraine's digital infrastructure Japan's Rakuten Symphon and Veon Group’s subsidiary Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator, have announced a preliminary agreement that confirms Kyivstar’s interest in procuring and deploying Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN...

The Japanese government granted this spectrum band to Rakuten Mobile in October 2023 Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile announced that it will deploy base stations using mobile network radios developed by Nokia operating in the 700 MHz band, also known as the "platinum band”, the telco...

Rakuten Mobile said that this new offering could be launched in 2026 Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile announced plans to start provide satellite-to-mobile service in Japan in 2026 in partnership with AST SpaceMobile. Rakuten Mobile said that the actual timing of the initiation of any such service...

Rakuten Mobile initially launched mobile services in Japan in April 2020 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has reached over 6 million subscribers as of the end of December, the carrier said in a release. “Since the full-scale launch of its mobile carrier service in April 2020, Rakuten...

1&1 said its partners in the O-RAN project are Rakuten Mobile and Mavenir German operator 1&1 confirmed that Open RAN (O-RAN) is fully functional and available throughout the country on its 5G network. The German carrier said that the O-RAN deployment is being supported by vendors...

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 (R&D) project into advanced edge cloud technologies for next-generation communications has been selected by Japan’s...

Rakuten Mobile said it attracted 192,000 new mobile customers only in October Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile expects to reach 8-10 million mobile subscribers by the end of 2024, the telco said in its earnings statement. The telco added a total of 400,000 subscribers since August, ending...

Earlier this month, the Japanese communications ministry said that Rakuten Mobile was the only company to apply for the 700 MHz slots during the application period Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile has received approval from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications for its special...

When it comes to real-world examples of how operators have leveraged automation based on network data, here are two: Nordic operator Elisa in Finland and its “lights-out” network operations center (NOC), and Rakuten Mobile (both in terms of utilizing automation itself, and helping other...

Rakuten Symphony talks Open RAN benefits and bringing radio disaggregation to brownfield network environments Beginning in 2018, Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Rakuten Group, started deploying a greenfield Open RAN network. Since then, Rakuten Group has also spun off hardware/software and consultancy vendor...

1&1 said it expects to launch 5G services with its own network infrastructure during 2024 German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, has been working in recent months to create the conditions to launch mobile services using its own network infrastructure, the...

Data-driven, software-first operations are key to telco AI success Greenfield Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, alongside its spin-off network equipment and software vendor Rakuten Symphony, has always done things in a markedly different way as compared to legacy telcos. Instead of sprawling workforces versed in different...

NEC said this O-RAN certification has been issued by Japan OTIC Japanese tech company NEC said it has obtained O-RAN certification from Japan's Open Testing & Integration Center (OTIC) for its 5G base station radio unit (RU). The company said that this 5G base station...

Rakuten Symphony and Veon will seek to accelerate the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, through collaboration on O-RAN Rakuten Symphony has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecom operator Veon, with the aim of helping recovery of critical infrastructure in Ukraine, which has been...

Rakuten Mobile said it plans to introduce this technology for commercial 5G SA mobile networks in the future Rakuten Mobile and Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) have completed a research and development project aimed at the commercial deployment of fully virtualized...

Rakuten Mobile will share results from its RIC experimentation with the O-RAN Alliance and the Open Test and Integration Centre (OTIC) in Japan Rakuten Mobile has announced plans to conduct R&D on RAN intelligent controllers (RICs) at Japan’s Yokosuka Telecom Research Park to advance the...

Rakuten Mobile said that this O-RAN research initiative is expected to last until June 2026 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the launch of a new research and development project with the aim of developing advanced Open RAN integration infrastructure. The operator said that this launch is...

1&1 recently said it expected to launch its 5G offering for smartphone users by the third quarter of 2023 Germany’s competition regulator Bundeskartellamt is currently assessing whether Vodafone Germany or its affiliated company Vantage Towers unlawfully impeded newcomer 1&1 in the deployment of its mobile...

1&1 said that a new rollout plan stipulates the provision of approximately 1,200 antenna masts by the end of 2023 German operator 1&1 said it expected to launch its 5G offering for smartphone users by the third quarter of 2023. “At this point, Telefónica will...

Rakuten Mobile reported that the total number of MNO subscriptions was 4.65 million at end-Q1 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 98.4% of the country’s population as of the end of the first quarter. The telco added that it expects to reach...

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 and its subsidiary Okinawa Cellular. In a release, Rakuten Mobile said the new roaming deal...

1&1 launched 5G services with fixed wireless access (FWA) technology earlier this year Germany’s federal network agency, Bundesnetzagentur, opened a fine proceeding against local telco 1&1 for failures in its 5G network coverage obligations, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported. As part of the 2019 frequency auction, the...