Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

Global Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) Market 2020 Size, Growth Drivers, SWOT Analysis, 2026 Key Companies Overview- ZTE Corporation, Samsung, Verizon, Nokia, Altiostar, Rakuten, AT&T

Post authorBy anita_adroit
Post date7th October 2020

This dedicated report also takes into consideration the overall performance of the global Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) market during both historic and current scenarios, so as to deduce relevant information about future growth prospects. Additionally, in the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) market report readers are also equipped with versatile understanding on vendor performance as well as activities across diverse regions, besides also harping about the performance on the basis of product categories. Proceeding further in the report, readers can gauge vivid details about voluminous performance, value chain assessment.

Key Manufacturers Analysis:
ZTE Corporation
Samsung
Verizon
Nokia
Altiostar
Rakuten
AT&T
Mavenir
Fujitsu
Huawei
CMCC

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Bharti Airtel, India’s leading MNO decided to take this path and in April this year announced its Open vRAN deployment with Cisco and Altiostar. Bharti became the first Indian Mobile Network Operator to deploy vRAN based 4G Network that is open that is seamlessly upgradeable to 5G.

Etisalat, one of the world’s leading telecom groups, announced the successful launch of Open vRAN early this year to become the first operator to adopt the technology in the Middle East. The success of this deployment was possible with the collaboration of Etisalat, Cisco, Altiostar and NEC.

Similarly, for one of its kind projects in the aviation industry, Gogo, a supplier of broadband connectivity products and services for Aviation, last year announced Cisco, Airspan, and First RF as its partners to supply elements for its air-to-ground (ATG) 5G network for use on business aviation aircraft and commercial regional jets operating within the United States and Canada.

Collaboration with WWT and Altiostar
World Wide Technology (WWT) is a technology solution provider that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations. WWT, from their Advanced Technology Center brings integration and deployment capabilities for operators. Recently, in April 2020, World Wide Technology (WWT) announced a collaboration with Cisco and Altiostar to develop an Open vRAN blueprint and validation lab. WWT will be taking a lead role to integrate, validate, and deliver multi-vendor solutions Thus, Service Providers will be able to see the Open vRAN solution in operation, get their hands on it, and test features that they require helping faster validation and deployment.

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Rakuten envisage d’accroître sa présence en Afrique
7 octobre 2020

Rakuten est un géant japonais des secteurs des télécommunications et de l’e-commerce. C’est une multinationale considérée comme l’Amazon nippon. A la suite du lancement de services 5G low-cost sur son marché domestique, Rakuten a fait une annonce concernant la zone MEA (Moyen-Orient et Afrique). Il a fait savoir son intention d’agrandir fortement sa présence dans la région.

Celle-ci est perçue comme « une formidable opportunité » par la société. Non seulement pour la 5G, mais aussi pour l’écosystème de Rakuten dans son ensemble.

« Nous avons eu des discussions incroyables avec les plus grands opérateurs mobiles de la région. Dans dix jours, vous entendrez des annonces qui vous donneront un aperçu de nos ambitions et de nos plans pour renforcer encore notre partenariat et notre collaboration dans la région », explique Tareq Amin, vice-président exécutif et directeur de la technologie.

Rakuten opère dans une variété de secteurs comme les télécoms, l’e-commerce, la fintech, la banque ou encore les partenariats. Fondée en 1997, elle doit son succès à des séries d’acquisitions et de diversification, ainsi qu’à la mise sur le marché d’offres concurrentielles. C’est le cas de ses récents services 5G, 67 % moins chers que ceux de ses rivaux.

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und hat auch 4 Millionen Mitglieder, was vielleicht einen proftablen Betrieb ermöglicht.

The publisher of e-commerce solutions Shopify integrates the Rakuten (France) marketplace
July 9, 2020

Shopify continues its offensive to become the essential platform for merchants having or targeting an online activity. The Canadian publisher of e-commerce solutions announced this July 9, 2020 to integrate the Rakuten (Rance) marketplace on its platform. The integration of the Rakuten connector aims to allow Shopify users to sell their products on the Rakuten marketplace (ex PriceMinister), which claims more than 4 million members.

Concretely, the integration of the Rakuten application into the Shopify app store, which has 4,100 applications, gives entrepreneurs and merchants access to dedicated and personalized corners with their colors. Note that the application allows all Shopify merchants (not only French) to sell on the Rakuten France market place, which has around 5,500 professional merchants.

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October 2020

When it launched its non-standalone 5G network on September 30, Rakuten, Japan’s newest mobile network operator (MNO) made another stride in establishing its position as a legitimate competitor to the three major incumbents: KDDI Corp’s au, NTT Docomo, and SoftBank. The operator also launched a new and upgraded service plan called “Rakuten UN-LIMIT V”, priced at 2,980 yen (US $28), the same as their original "Rakuten UN-LIMIT 2.0” plan that, according to Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, is 71% cheaper than other 5G services in Japan.

Its previous marketing campaign (offered to attract the maximum number of subscribers), which gave mobile services free of charge to the first 3 million subscribers for a year, applies to new subscribers of Rakuten UN-LIMIT V as well.

Following this announcement, Tutela has taken stock of how Rakuten's initial network launch has shaped up.

Key findings

Rakuten users received very high quality user experience when connected to their own network as opposed to roaming on other operator’s networks. Furthermore, Rakuten users already spend the majority of their time on Rakuten’s network rather than roaming on au (its network partner) despite its recent launch.

Rakuten users experienced higher upload speeds and better latency compared to some of the other operators, which may prove to be important elements for Rakuten’s success. With the world being in a lockdown, these are critical factors for some important use-cases like gaming and uploading content on social media platforms.

Rakuten’s overall user experience was well behind the major national operators owing to its low download speeds, which are particularly noticeable when Rakuten users are using the roaming partner's network. However, the high-quality user experience provided by Rakuten’s own network — and its rate of adoption by users — suggests that so far, the O-RAN deployment is working well.

www.tutela.com/blog/...rakutens-mobile-experience-so-far-2020

Entgegen vielen pessimistischen Prognosen steht fest: Open Ran funktioniert.

Das bedeutet meines Erachtens:

1. Rakuten Mobile wird sich in Japan einen angemessenen Anteil sicher können. Und auch wenn es nur die Nr. 4 ist und bleibt, entsteht hier ein Erlösstrom mit relativ niedrigem Kapitaleinsatz im Vergleich zu den Wettbewerbern.

2. Und weil es funktioniert und die ganze Welt das beobachtet, bestehen auch weitere Vermarktungschancen weltweit über die dafür schon geschaffene Plattform.

Alchemy Pay and QFPay Powers Digital Currency Payments For Shopify Merchants

Business Wire
08.10.2020 | 16:04

ALCHEMY PAY AND QFPAY POWERS DIGITAL CURRENCY PAYMENTS FOR SHOPIFY MERCHANTS

Alchemy Pay ("Alchemy"), a pioneer in hybrid digital and fiat payment solutions, announced that it will be launching its hybrid fiat and cryptocurrency payment services for ecommerce players on Shopify through Alchemy's partnership with QFPay. QFPay, a fiat payments leader with over 1.2 million merchants, is a payment service provider of Shopify and the co-developer of the hybrid payment solution.

Shopify users from countries including UK, US, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and more can now begin to accept nine top digital currencies, namely BTC, ETH, BCH, BNB, BUSD, USDT, GUSD, LTC and ACH the multifunctional utility token issued by Alchemy.

The hybrid payment system is the world's first all-in-one payment gateway that can conduct both blockchain and fiat payments, including credit cards, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Hong Kong's FPS and other mainstream fiat payment methods. Consumers shopping on Shopify's partners using their PC browser can pay in digital currencies using any wallet of their choice. Shoppers on mobile apps or browsers will need to pay via partnered wallets of Alchemy.

About QFPay
QFPay is a leading mobile payment technology, solution and service provider with presence across 13 markets in Asia and the Middle East. To date, QFPay's solutions have served over 1.2 million merchants and executed over 1 billion transactions. QFPay's investors include MDI Ventures, Rakuten Capital, VentureSouq and more.

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Digitale Gesundheitsplattform
Swiss Life und Dacadoo werden Partner

Di 07.01.2020 - 11:36 Uhr
von René Jaun

Der Versicherungskonzern Swiss Life partnert mit dem Zürcher Start-up Dacadoo. Dieses entwickelt Produkte im Digital-Health-Bereich. Mit der Partnerschaft will Swiss Life seine Kunden ermutigen, ihre Gesundheit zu verbessern.

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Gegen Burn-out und Depressionen
Dacadoo und Meru Health partnern für Online-Therapie

Di 03.03.2020 - 12:08 Uhr
von Sven Martens

Die Schweizer Gesundheitsplattform Dacadoo geht eine Partnerschaft mit Meru Health ein. Die beiden Unternehmen wollen die psychische Gesundheitsvorsorge verbessern.

Meru Health ist eigenen Angaben zufolge eine digitale Klinik, spezialisiert auf die psychische Gesundheitsvorsorge. Das Unternehmen bietet digitale Therapieprogramme mithilfe einer App an. Das Angebot soll insbesondere Menschen mit Depressionen, Burn-out oder Angstzuständen adressieren. Lizenzierte Therapeuten sollen diese Programme aus der Ferne begleiten. Das Unternehmen hat Standorte in Finnland und den USA.

Dacadoo bietet einen KI-basierten Coach an, der die Nutzer zu einem gesunden Lebensstil motivieren soll. Zu diesem Zweck nutzt die Plattform Techniken aus der Verhaltensforschung und kombiniert sie mit Gamification und Social-Media-Funktionen.

Meru Health wolle die "Erfahrung in der Verhaltensaktivierung" von Dacadoo mit dem eigenen Behandlungsprogramm kombinieren, sagt Tuure Parkkinen, Vice President of Partnerships in Europe von Meru Health.

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(PresseBox) (Tokyo/Japan/Zürich, Schweiz, 21.07.17)
Die Schweizer Firma dacadoo, welche die gleichnamige mobile Gesundheitsplattform betreibt, hat eine neue Kapitalerhöhung mit Rakuten Capital als Hauptinvestor abgeschlossen.

Die Schweizer Firma dacadoo entwickelt und bietet eine digitale Gesundheitsplattform an, mit der Nutzer aktiv ihre Gesundheit auf einfache und spielerische Art verstehen, verfolgen und verbessern können. dacadoo wendet dafür Motivationstechniken aus Onlinespielen, Dynamiken aus sozialen Netzwerken, personalisiertes Feedback und ein integriertes Belohnungssystem an, um Nutzer zu motivieren, aktiv zu bleiben und zu einem gesünderen Lebensstil zu finden. Die Technologieplattform des Unternehmens umfasst einen Chatbot basierend auf künstlicher Intelligenz, um das tägliche Engagement mit den Nutzern zu fördern. Der dacadoo Gesundheitsindex wird durch klinische Daten unterstützt und wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit weltweit führenden Experten für Gesundheit, Ernährung und Risikomodellierung entwickelt.

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel, Managing Partner bei Rakuten Capital, kommentiert: "Wir freuen uns mit dacadoo zusammenzuarbeiten. Das Unternehmen hat einen innovativen Ansatz, weil es Nutzer mit Hilfe von Technologie motiviert, bessere gesundheitliche Ergebnisse zu erreichen, während es Versicherer und Gesundheitsdienstleister mit wertvollen Daten unterstützt, was zu erheblichen Kostenreduktionen führen kann."

Peter Ohnemus, Gründer und CEO von dacadoo, fügt hinzu: " Wir sind begeistert und geehrt, einen so prestigeträchtigen Investor wie Rakuten Capital zu gewinnen, und wir freuen uns sehr über die gemeinsamen Möglichkeiten, die vor uns liegen.”

Rakuten Capital, der Corporate Venture Capital Arm von Rakuten, Inc., machte die Investition durch den Rakuten FinTech Fund. Michael Piechalak von Rakuten Capital wird dem Verwaltungsrat von dacadoo beitreten.

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Everledger and Temera announce strategic partnership to re-imagine customer experience, sustainability and authenticity in the fashion & luxury industries Pioneering companies in blockchain and NFC technologies will strengthen their collaboration with customers in apparel and luxury goods.

London and Florence, 9 September 2020

Future-focused brands in the apparel and luxury sectors can now harness blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) to demonstrate their green commitments and unite customers around a shared passion, thanks to a new partnership between two pioneers in these emerging fields of technology.

Everledger, the digital transparency company, and Temera, leader in Internet of Things (IoT) technology for the fashion industry, have today announced their strategic collaboration to service the apparel and luxury sectors. This ground-breaking partnership will further the adoption of easy-to-experience, seamless technology and accelerate the journey to more circular and sustainable fashion. Tuscany-based Temera brings nearly two decades of fashion industry experience, while Everledger’s traceability and customer experience suite of solutions has earned a global reputation for delivery since 2015.

The first collaboration between these two companies has contributed to MCQ, a new fashion label that was launched last week by Alexander McQueen. Under the leadership of MCQ, Everledger developed the tech integration throughout the brand’s conceptualisation, products and online consumer experience. Temera has worked on the NFC chips that fuse the physical clothes with their digital twins, which are then recorded on the Everledger blockchain platform for ultimate data security.

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Introduced in 2017, the Dutch implementation of Kobo Plus provided valuable data that helped bring the offering to Canada. “60 percent of the country’s Kobo Plus subscribers had never before purchased an a-la-carte e-book from Kobo,” Tamblyn reveals. “But equally surprising, since the launch of Kobo Plus in the Netherlands, the company continues to experience double-digit year-over-year sales growth for a-la-carte eBooks, alongside rapid subscription growth.”

If Canada can emulate this success, more countries could follow: “We are most definitely considering more markets for 2021.”

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The ZTE Axon 20 5G is the first phone in the world that features an under-display selfie camera, launched in the previous month. Now, Japanese telecommunication giant Rakuten has also joined the party with that launch of its Rakuten BIG smartphone, whose main highlights are the huge display and an under-display selfie camera. For its massive footprint, this phone is named as the Rakuten ‘BIG’. Let’s get into the specifications of this phone.

The Rakuten BIG smartphone runs on Android 10 OS and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm snapdragon 765G chipset. Regarding the display, this phone features a huge 6.9-inch Full HD+ OLED display with the support of an in-display fingerprint scanner. This phone is available in three different color variants: Black, White, and Crimson Red.

Coming to the cameras, this phone features a vertically designed quad-rear camera setup, which includes a 64 megapixels primary shooter, 8 megapixels ultra-wide lens, as well as a pair of 2 megapixels depth and macro cameras. For the selfies and video calling, this phone is equipped with a 32 megapixels under-display selfie camera. That means the user will get a totally full-screen experience as there will not be any kind of notches.

The 765G chipset of this phone is paired with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The storage is further expandable via an external microSD card. This phone has every other connectivity features, especially the support of the 5G network.

Regarding the battery, this phone is fueled by a decent 4,000mAH battery. In terms of other features, this phone includes an IP68 rating for water and dust resistance, as well as its support for NFC connectivity.

Let’s get into the pricing and availability. For the interested ones, the Rakuten BIG is currently available in the Japanese market with a price tag of 69,800 Yen (US$660) for its sole 6GB+128GB model.

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Affiliate-Marketing bleibt trotz sinkender Werbeausgaben stark

Sneha Bokil
22. Juni 2020

Eine neue Studie von Rakuten zeigt, dass das Affiliate-Marketing stark ist, obwohl die Werbeausgaben aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie weiter sinken.
Das Affiliate-Marketing in den USA hat in diesem Jahr fast 6,82 Milliarden US-Dollar erreicht und wird trotz der aktuellen Krise weiter zunehmen.

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“We must take a bit of credit about what we’ve done,” said Rakuten’s CTO Tareq Amin about their use of Open RAN. “We have innovated an architecture that was proprietary, that was closed and absolutely unwilling to evolve into an open RAN platform. We have driven a discussion in the world about the necessity of open RAN architecture.”

While to date Open RAN has primarily been the realm of smaller players, the Tier-1 vendors are beginning to take notice.

“New entrants will lead the early deployment for Open RAN, but they will be increasingly challenged by tier-one vendors and system integrators for both public cellular implementations and enterprise deployment,” said Hou.

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für Rakuten und ist wohl auch eine,  vielleicht ein Nummer kleiner als gigantisch.

Wie die Claims verteilt werden ist allerdings schwer abzusehen, aber zumindest mit seiner Mehrheitsbeteiligung  Altiostar und auch mit der vollständig erworbenen Innoeye hat Rakuten, unabhängig davon wie sich der Erfolg der eigenen Plattform entwickelt, m.E. zwei heiße Eisen im Rennen.

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The 4G rollout at Rakuten continues at frantic pace and as of September 2020 there were more than 18,000+ macro radios on air, serving major urban centers in Japan. Field data from Rakuten’s 4G deployment has shown that Open vRAN performance meets or exceeds the industry benchmarks in terms of data speed, availability, etc.

Benefits of Open vRAN
Disaggregation of software from hardware brings the agility that is so important in today’s hyper-competitive market. With Open vRAN, service providers are assured of capital investment protection while innovation cycles continue in software, enabling continuous delivery of new few features/ functionalities.

Virtualization of RAN further extends the platform centric approach to the network edge that is so essential for breaking down the operational silos and implement unified management practices for accelerated service deployments and simplicity.

In further simplification of network architecture, the same Open vRAN software is used across all deployment models, be it is macro, micro, massive MIMO, and across different RAT types i.e. 4G & 5G. This unified approach brings unprecedented flexibility to the operations teams for network monitoring and troubleshooting.

With virtualization of RAN network functions, it is now possible to gather granular information from different software modules that paves the way for automated operations aided by artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

Open vRAN Leadership
The announcement by Rakuten once again demonstrates continuation of thought leadership and innovation by Altiostar in the 5G domain. Rakuten has been a disruptor in the market and we look forward to continuing to work with them as partners in the journey to transform the mobile network into an open and web-scale architecture.

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Das zeigt m.E., dass fundamentale Gründe
für den zuletzt gesehenen Kursanstieg nicht verantwortlich gewesen sein dürften.

Die Gewinnprognosen pro Aktie sind heute tiefer als vor sieben Wochen. Dieser negative Trend hat am 02.10.2020 bei einem Kurs von 1.176,00 eingesetzt.

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“I truly believe that we are about two years ahead, time-to-market advantage against anyone on the implementation and the architecture of a completely cloud-defined network, whether you look at large- scale public clouds or even large OEMs, we think we have done a significant amount of technology uplift to materialize this in Tokyo,” the executive added.

Rakuten Mobile recently announced the availability of its commercial 5G service in certain areas across six prefectures of Japan.

The service, initially offered via Non-Stand Alone (NSA) 5G architecture, is already available in parts of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Hokkaido, Osaka and Hyogo.

Rakuten Mobile’s President Yoshihisa Yamada recently said that the operator is expecting the 5G to be available in Japan’s all 47 prefectures by end-March 2021.

The carrier also said it expects to launch a Stand-Alone 5G network in the second quarter of 2021.
Rakuten Mobile launched mobile services in Japan in April 2020 through its end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network.

Rakuten Mobile’s total obligation, agreed upon with the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), is to deploy 15,787 sub-6 GHz base stations and 7,948 mmWave base stations. The carrier has agreed to deploy at least 667 sub-6 GHz and 441 mmWave base stations by the end of March 2021.

Amin said that the company would accelerate 5G deployments and noted that the physical build-out of the network is not a major concern. “The most complex part was about the technology,” he said.

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Rakuten has already committed 330 billion yen by June to develop transmission networks for its mobile services.

Nikkei staff writersSeptember 30, 2020 18:26 JSTUpdated on September 30, 2020 18:45 JST
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Affiliate marketing generated a 12:1 return on ad spend

Affiliate Marketing Delivers Performance-Based Results

Affiliate marketing is growing in popularity because it is a budget friendly digital marketing solution that gets results for advertisers. For publishers, joining an affiliate network helps open up revenue generating opportunities by connecting them with advertisers who are looking to reach a certain niche audience.

Affiliate marketing generated a 12:1 return on ad spend (ROAS) according to a 2019 report from the Performance Marketing Association (PMA), making it one of the most cost-effective digital advertising investments.

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wird der Thread 6 in Worten SECHS Jahre alt.

Und wen wundert es eigentlich noch dass nach 6 Jahren Börsennhausse diese Gemischwarenladen-Aktie immer noch im Minus steht seit dieser langen Zeit.

Andere Aktien haben 1000,2000,3000,4000 Prozent und mehr an Plus gemacht.

teilweise auch Partner in Projekten von Altiostar darf man gespannt sein:

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Medialink, ‘Viber’ Ink Asia Merch Deal
The messaging app is making its way to licensed products.

License Global | Aug 13, 2020

“Rakuten Viber,” one of the world’s leading messaging apps, has signed a deal with Medialink Animation International, a subsidiary of its Hong Kong-listed company, Medialink Group, one of Asia’s biggest licensing agencies, to turn the app’s sticker characters into merchandise that Filipino users can enjoy.

“Medialink brings solid expertise, knowledge and great passion to help us take our massively successful sticker characters into the real world in the Philippines – a market with an 85 percent interest in owning ‘Viber’-branded products,” says Matan Kaufman, product marketing director, Viber. “Just knowing that ‘Viber’ fans will soon get to extend their love for Violet, LegCat and other characters in more tangible quality ways is truly exciting and a great step into deepening our relationship with our audience of over 1 billion users globally.”

Soon, fans will be able to find merchandise based on these beloved sticker characters in leading stores in the Philippines.

www.licenseglobal.com/industry-news/...er-ink-asia-merch-deal

Call 50 countries around the world for just $8.99 a month

A Viber Out subscription plan is an excellent solution when you need to call landlines and non-Viber mobiles in one country, but what about if you regularly call more than one country in any given month? It can get expensive buying multiple destination plans. So get a Viber Out World Plan subscription.

The worldwide subscription is an all-inclusive plan to all mobiles and landlines in 50 countries around the world, including popular destinations such as United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Russia and India.

The many benefits of a World Plan
The plan includes unlimited minutes per month, so you can call as many mobile or landline numbers as you need without running out of credit (fair usage policy applies).

The World Plan costs just $8.99 a month, saving you even more money than a regular subscription or credit. Even better, there are no extra costs on top of the monthly payment.

The subscription will renew automatically every month, so you don’t need to worry about getting a new one.

Now you don’t need to think twice the next time you need to call a number in a new country!

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