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STC and Rakuten Mobile sign cooperation agreement
2020-10-12 13:20:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Saudi operator STC and Rakuten Mobile have signed a cooperation agreement covering innovation and strategic mobile technology. The two companies will explore future opportunities to collaborate in various technology domains, including, fully autonomous digital platforms serving cloud networks, OpenRAN deployment options for greenfield and brownfield use-cases, operating models and business value realisation.
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Rakuten Mobile launches 5G service, Un-Limit V plan, Rakuten Big 5G smartphone
2020-10-01 09:18:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Rakuten Mobile commercially launched its fully virtualized mobile network in April this year, and is now offering customers 4G and 5G combined in one plan called the Rakuten Un-Limit V, at the same price as 4G.
Telefonica, Rakuten Mobile ink OpenRAN MoU
2020-09-16 14:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Spain's Telefonica has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile to cooperate on the development of OpenRAN, 5G Core and OSS technologies. The partners said they intend to run joint lab tests and trials of OpenRAN architecture, focusing on the role of Artificial Intelligence in RAN networks. They will also jointly develop proposals for optimal 5G RAN architecture and OpenRAN models as part of industry efforts to achieve quicker time to market, new price-points and boost the potential of software-centric RAN.
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Rakuten and Telefonica join forces in support of Open RAN
2020-09-16 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Today, Telefonica has announced a new deal to develop Open RAN technology in collaboration with Japan’s Rakuten. Open RAN is a concept whereby networks are comprised of hardware and software from multiple vendors that are open and interoperable. This theoretically means less reliance on major traditional vendors and allows for a wider…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Rakuten rapidly expanding network, wants 96% Japanese coverage by next summer
2020-08-13 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
When Rakuten Mobile exploded onto the Japanese telecoms scene, it was immediately clear that this was a company planning on doing things differently. Deploying an end-to-end fully virtualised, cloud-native mobile network, Rakuten said that its minimal reliance on traditional RAN hardware would lead to a far cheaper rollout…read more on TotalTele.com »
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