Rakuten Mobile
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BlueWalker 3, the satellite due to test mobile phone services from space for remote parts of the world, is now in orbit. -
Cellular satellite company AST SpaceMobile has generated a further US$28 million to further its ambitions by selling its stake in smallsat company NanoAvionics.
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AST SpaceMobile plans to try out its space-based mobile phone network with the launch of a test satellite in August.
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Nokia and Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile have pushed the speed of fibre to 1Tbps per channel to connect data centres.
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Rakuten Symphony is expanding its operations in three markets as it looks to bring its Open RAN technologies to Europe and the UK.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
Forthcoming events
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The top four vendors in the emerging open RAN market are Parallel Wireless, Altiostar, Intel and Mavenir, according to a new report.
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The Asia-Pacific region is driving the surging market for open RAN networks, according to a new survey.
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Season 2, episode 17 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman and special guest Carl Roberts.
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Rakuten Mobile and its equipment supplier NEC are to work together to promote open RAN networks worldwide.
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Japanese technology company Rakuten, which has launched a cloud-based 5G network, has raised 242 billion yen (US$2.2 billion) by selling stakes to Japan Post, Tencent and Walmart.
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NEC, the vendor that is already supplying open-source 5G equipment to Japan’s Rakuten, is to set up a centre of excellence in the UK.
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Nothing to do with Covid, but virtualisation of telecoms networks means that telcos are no longer locked in to a few hardware vendors. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the march of SDN and NFV
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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Japan’s Rakuten Mobile is rolling out cloud-based 5G services in main cities, available to all users with a suitable device for no extra cost.
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Japanese retailer Rakuten is set to launch its 5G network next month, the first in the world to be using open standards for its radio network.
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Japanese cloud-based mobile carrier Rakuten has launched its roaming agreement with KDDI to allow customers to keep in touch across the country.
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Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile is to produce its cloud-based 5G system with NEC after a joint development project.
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Internet services company Rakuten and mobile operator Vodafone have invested in a satellite company that promises to deliver 4G from space.
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International Carriers, the wholesale division of Orange, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Rakuten to provider Rakuten Mobile with LTE roaming services.
