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Rakuten Symphony, Kyivstar commit to O-RAN in Ukraine

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...

German telco 1&1 says its O-RAN network is fully functional

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 launches R&D into advanced edge cloud tech

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 aims to end 2024 with 8-10 million subscribers

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...

Two examples of leveraging automation in network operations: Elisa, Rakuten

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...

How to accelerate Open RAN adoption

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...

Telco AI Deep Dive: Rakuten on the importance of data fidelity

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 its 5G base station RU gets O-RAN certification

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...

Three aspects of assuring private networks

Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...

Rakuten Symphony, VEON sign O-RAN deal in Ukraine

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, NEDO test 5G SA equipment using virtualization

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 launches Open RAN R&D initiative

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...

O-RAN, vRAN revenue moderate growth in Q1: Dell’Oro

Dell'Oro highlighted that O-RAN revenue growth in Q1 was in the 10-20% range Open RAN (O-RAN) and virtualized RAN (vRAN) revenue growth moderated in the first quarter of 2023 after strong growth last year, according to a recent report from Dell’Oro Group. “Since both Open RAN...

Rakuten launches O-RAN customer experience center in UK

Rakuten said that telcos and industry suppliers in Europe and the Middle East will be invited to test advancements in O-RAN technologies in the new facility Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Symphony UK officially opened the Rakuten Open RAN (O-RAN) customer experience center in...

Rakuten Symphony, Axiata to foster O-RAN deployments in Asia

Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...

Rakuten Mobile’s 4G infra reaches 98% of Japanese population

Rakuten Mobile said it aims to have 60,000 base stations in operation by the end of fiscal year 2023 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 98% of the country’s population as of the end of the most recent quarter. The telco said it...

Rakuten Symphony launches new solution for 5G network planning

Rakuten Symphony said that Symworld RAN Commander is a one-stop solution for all aspects of network planning and optimization Rakuten Symphony recently announced the general availability of its Symworld RAN Commander solution for automated 5G mobile network planning and optimization. The Japanese company, which is the...

Rakuten plans Open RAN lab in UK

Funded by the Japanese government, Rakuten’s new lab should be open in March 2023 Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony UK announced Monday plans to open what they’re calling an Open RAN Customer Experience Center in the U.K. It’s coming to Rakuten Symphony’s offices by March 2023, and...

Rakuten Mobile to launch services using the ‘Platinum’ band in 2024

Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 50,400 base stations as of the end of September Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile aims to start using spectrum in the so-called platinum band (800/900 MHz) in March 2024 to provide mobile telephony services in the country, the...

Rakuten Symphony adds Juniper RIC to Symworld offering

The RIC will be offered for free to Rakuten Symphony customers who buy Symworld applications As the focus of Open RAN discussion expands beyond capex and opex savings to also include an emphasis on disaggregated, cloud-based RAN as a vector for innovation, there’s a new...

Telecom Infra Project readies blueprint for cheaper, scalable cloud-native private 5G

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...

Rakuten Symphony taking off Red Hat, putting on Rocky Linux

CEO Tareq Amin said a per-appliance software subscription fee “killed my business model”  Rakuten Mobile is in the process of removing Red Hat software from its network deployment in Japan, and working with Rocky Linux for processing software workloads in distributed units across its Open...

Rakuten Webinar: Cloud-native Service Assurance

Unlocking the path to autonomous networks Rakuten Symphony offers a new yet proven approach to automated, end-to-end service assurance. It gives operators a way to reduce today’s operational costs, and also a future-proof solution able to support the journey from today’s 2G/3G/4G mobile and fixed...

For Open RAN testing, more vendors means more problems

With Open RAN, there’s the risk of trading vendor lock-in for system integrator lock-in With greenfield success stories and increasing interest from brownfield players, it appears Open RAN is happening, but the question remaining is can it happen fast enough to meaningfully change the supplier...