RADCOM renews partnership with Rakuten Mobile

RADCOM has announced it has renewed its multi-year collaboration with Rakuten Mobile. The company will continue to provide current solution offerings and the collaboration will include advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics

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Rakuten Mobile and Nokia hit 1 Tbps milestone over 820km

Rakuten Mobile and Nokia Corporation have announced the completion of a trial of 1 Tbps (terabits per second) end-to-end transmission over a single wavelength on an 820km subsea and terrestrial

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Rakuten Mobile, NEDO test 5G SA equipment using virtualisation

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) has announced completion of a research and development project. This aims at commercial deployment of fully virtualised

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Rakuten Mobile, Yokosuka Telecom Research Park open RIC research facility for advancement of open RAN

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and Yokosuka Telecom Research Park Co., Ltd. have opened a new RIC (RAN intelligent controller) research facility at the Yokosuka Research Park in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. This

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Rakuten Mobile selects Oracle Communications for 4G, 5G services

Rakuten Mobile has chosen Oracle Communications‘ cloud native converged policy and charging solutions to support its fast-growing 4G and 5G services, with plans to onboard to Rakuten Symphony’s Symworld Marketplace. These

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5G NTN-mobile market to reach $18bn by 2031, says ABI Research

According to findings from global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the non-terrestrial networks (NTN)–mobile segment has the potential to reach a market value of at least [$18 billion (€16.40 billion)], with up to 200 million connections by

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KDDI, Rakuten Mobile reach new roaming agreement

Tokyo, 11 May 2023 – KDDI Corporation, Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. has announced that three companies have concluded a new roaming agreement as of April 2023.

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Rakuten Mobile, AST SpaceMobile complete space based voice calls on smartphone

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and AST SpaceMobile, Inc., have announced completion of the two-way voice calls, directly to everyday unmodified smartphones using the BlueWalker 3 (“BW3”) satellite.

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Rakuten launches Open RAN customer experience centre in UK

Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Rakuten Symphony, Inc. and Rakuten Symphony UK Ltd., have opened the Rakuten Open RAN customer experience centre, United Kingdom, heralding a new era of British-Japanese technological collaboration

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AST SpaceMobile, Zain KSA partner to expand satellite services to mobile phones

Midland, United States – AST SpaceMobile, Inc., a company building the space based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced a non-binding memorandum

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