Rakuten

  Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten expects to deploy a total of 4,000 edge servers in Japan for the launch of its virtualized mobile network, the company’s chairman and CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani said …

  Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot company NEC announced that they have formed a partnership to build what it claims to be the world’s first 5G open vRAN architecture …

  The Japanese government announced it will allow the country’s four mobile carriers to deploy 5G base stations on traffic signals, the Nikkei Asian Review reported. The main aim of the …

Japan’s government has approved plans by the country’s four mobile carriers to build 5G wireless networks with investment set to reach JPY 1.6 trillion ($14.4 billion) over the next five …

Rakuten says it will build a cloud-native, nationwide network for about $5 billion As operators transition from LTE to 5G, there’s significant discussion around how 5G requires a cloud-native, fully-virtualized …

  Rakuten aims to implement an end-to-end cloud-native network to provide differentiated services to its mobile subscribers Red Hat announced that its open source technologies will be used by Japan’s …

With Nokia’s IoT platform, the Japanese company will be able to offer IoT services for sectors including agriculture, industry and automotive BARCELONA–Nokia announced that Japanese operator Rakuten has selected its …

  Rakuten’s network uses Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs for acceleration Intel has confirmed that it will provide technology to Japanese e-commerce and internet services provider Rakuten for a …

  The Japanese company aims to launch mobile services in Japan in October 2019 Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced plans to invest in U.S.-based virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) vendor …

  KDDI’s president confirmed initial 5G-based services will be high-definition images and drone security Japanese telco KDDI expects to start offering 5G services as part of a limited pre-commercial launch …

  The company has already reached 1,800 partners in its 5G Open partner program Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo plans to launch pre-commercial 5G services in September 2019, the carrier’s …

  Rakuten used the Nokia AirScale base station and the Intel 5G Mobile Trial Platform for the technology trial Japanese company Rakuten Mobile Network has conducted a 5G trial in collaboration …