BROWSING: virtualized mobile network

KDDI recently claimed to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G SA O-RAN site in Japan Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that Japanese telco KDDI is using the HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco server for the commercial network operation of O-RAN compliant 5G...

KDDI has commercial, 5G Standalone network using Open RAN equipment Wind River, a specialist in software for mission-critical intelligent systems, announced that Japanese carrier KDDI has used Wind River Studio for its O-RAN–compliant 5G Standalone virtualized base station technology, which has recently launched on its...

Rakuten Mobile Americas' General Manager Azita Arvani addresses the company's decision to sell its end-to-end, cloud-native and fully virtualized mobile network architecture as a solution to other operators, as opposed to keeping it all to itself. 

  New Japanese market entrant Rakuten Mobile, which is a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, is seeing a high level of interest by multiple governments around the world for the adoption of the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), said Tareq Amin, representative director, EVP and CTO...

  Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has announced the availability of its commercial 5G service in certain areas across six prefectures of the country. The service, initially offered via Non-Stand Alone (NSA) 5G architecture, is already available in parts of Tokyo,...

  Tech and business services company Tech Mahindra and Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile have reached an agreement in which the former has been appointed as a preferred partner for global go-to-market opportunities for the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Under the agreement, Tech Mahindra will provide...

  New Japanese market entrant Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, expects to cover all the country’s population with its mobile service in 2021. During an earnings call, Chairman and CEO Mickey Mikitani said that the company previously targeted full coverage in Japan by...

  Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has officially started accepting customer applications for its mobile service, scheduled to be launched next month. Rakuten Mobile is initially launching a single unlimited plan with free service over the first 12 months for 3...

  Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has delayed the launch of its nationwide mobile services. The service was initially expected for next month, and instead the company will launch a free rial service for  a limited number of customers from...