The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to
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
Indian digital services company Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, may target West Asia, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asian regions as markets for its
Nokia collaborated with other vendors in Rakuten Mobile’s network build Earlier this month the Open RAN Policy Coalition launched with a number of open RAN vendors,
When you see the many announcements around innovation in OpenRAN for 5G, what you may not realize is that the 4G and 5G-only OpenRAN approach
Rakuten’s virtual RAN and Elisa’s lights-out NOC The flexibility 5G enables requires a similar level of flexibility in the underlying network infrastructure. Proprietary, single-purpose hardware is
Altiostar, Intel, Xilinx among Telefónica Open RAN providers Ahead of planned Open RAN trials later this year in Brazil, Germany, Spain and the U.K., telecoms giant
CTO calls it a first-of-its-kind “Wi-Fi like” deployment; espouses benefits of open RAN BARCELONA–In the two years since being allocated mobile spectrum by Japanese regulators, Rakuten
Mavenir announces availability of 4G/5G open RAN solution This week Richardson, Texas-based vendor Mavenir announced the “launch and availability” of a 4G- and 5G-compatible virtualized radio
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
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
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
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
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