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5G Virtual Drone Tour Conducted by Rakuten Mobile in Kobe

JUNE 7, 2023 by RNN

Rakuten Mobile utilized its 5G network to successfully carry out a demonstration of a "virtual drone tour" above the city of Kobe, Japan. The goal of this experiment was to promote Kobe tourism by offering visiting Vissel Kobe fans a new stadium experience to make the most of their time before and after matches. Participants sitting in the stadium remotely controlled a drone as it streamed footage of Kobe in real-time overlayed with AR content to receive sightseeing information and coupons.

global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2023/2303_022/

Speaking of no cell signal abroad, satellite-to-device connectivity could eliminate this problem altogether. But let’s look beyond the end of dead zones.

Let’s assume that satellite-to-device technology jumps beyond 2G connectivity, scales the cliff’s edge of 3G connectivity, and lands somewhere similar to 5G speeds. If that happens—and low-orbiting satellites like Rakuten’s can cover the globe—every mobile device on Earth would have broadband access.

www.makeuseof.com/...-to-device-tech-make-smartphones-better/

Rakuten Mobile slashes capex budget

12 MAY 2023 Joseph Waring

Japanese open RAN pioneer Rakuten Mobile revealed plans to reduce capex over the next three years, targeting a JPY100 billion ($742.4 million) reduction this year in a move designed to accelerate its path to profit.

In its Q1 earnings release, Rakuten Mobile outlined a move to slice JPY300 billion from its network budget from 2023 to 2025.

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JPY15 billion a month = JPY180 billion a year ($ 1.3 billion)

Chairman Mickey Mikitani noted on its earnings call a new roaming deal with KDDI will enable it to deliver “a significant improvement in user experience and contribute to our financial health” by lowering network costs and operating expenses.

Rakuten Mobile stated roaming costs will increase slightly compared with its original capex plan, but overall expenses will decrease, with no change in its cost reduction target of JPY15 billion a month.

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1&1 O-RAN: DIE MODERNE ZIELARCHITEKTUR IM VERGLEICH ZUR TRADITIONELLEN ARCHITEKTUR

o-ran.de/news/detail/o-ran-zielarchitektur-1und1

June 8, 2023

What does it take to drive a new era in telecom – one where cutting-edge technologies and brave ideas come together to unlock the future of connectivity? The answer is people; Some of the most talented and ambitious in telecom, connected by a shared goal to do things differently and bring vital disruption to the industry. We caught up with some of our heart-led high performers from Rakuten Symphony Japan to learn about their passions, highlights and inspirations, as well as hear what advice they had for potential future colleagues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWmYqJSwsQ

2023 April New Grads Join Rakuten Group

JUNE 9, 2023 by RNN

788 new grads joined the Rakuten Group from April 2023! Check out the very first day of these fresh new faces at Rakuten and hear the ambitions that a couple of them have for the future.

global.rakuten.com/corp/innovation/rnn/2023/2304_004/

Will Townsend
May 19, 2023,03:46pm EDT

The Open RAN discussion continues

Unsurprisingly, Open RAN was also a hot topic at the event. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Rakuten took to the main stage to discuss key Open RAN updates.

Rakuten might be best described as the poster child for Open RAN, so it was no surprise that the company provided an update at the Big 5G Event. Rakuten lays claim to the largest Open RAN deployment in the world, and it has aggregated its learnings with its Symphony Symworld 4G and 5G.

I was initially skeptical about Symworld, given the competitive nature of operators, and I wondered whether others would adopt Rakuten’s solution. However, that quickly changed for me a year ago. Symworld was launched at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona in 2022, and I was impressed by the collaboration out of the gate between Rakuten and AT&T. Not only does AT&T plan to leverage Rakuten’s intellectual property for its own Open RAN deployments, but it will also collaborate to enhance Symworld over time. Support from Nokia and Cisco also points to the value Rakuten provides for others in the Open RAN space, where it hopes to capitalize on its deployment agility and savings in capital and operational expenses.

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06-09-2023 01:15 PM CET

Major players profiled in the study are: Alibaba Group (China), Amazon.com (United States), JD.com (China), Rakuten (Japan), Walmart (United States), American Apparel (United States), Benetton (Italy), Cotton On (Australia), Diesel (Italy), Dolce & Gabbana (Italy)

www.openpr.com/news/3083430/...et-may-see-a-big-move-benetton

The Business Phone Number Platform Market size is projected to accrue voluminously by 2029 registering a phenomenal CAGR of 32% during the forecast period (2023 to 2029).

Business Phone Number Platform Market 2023 to 2029 Demand by Key Regions and Top Key Players as Zoom, Rakuten Viber, Cisco

Published: June 9, 2023 at 5:27 a.m. ET

The Business Phone Number Platform Market Research Report is a supreme resource that presents an all-inclusive view of the Business Phone Number Platform industry, surrounding all relevant information. The Business Phone Number Platform Market size is projected to accrue voluminously by 2029 registering a phenomenal CAGR of 32% during the forecast period (2023 to 2029).

Some of the key players profiled in the report: Zoom, Rakuten Viber, Cisco, Microsoft, Mitel, RingCentral, Avaya, Twilio, Meta, 8×8, Verizon, Enreach, GoTo, Vonage, Ooma, TextNow, Aircall, AVOXI, Dialpad, Sangoma Technologies, Dstny, NFON, Nextiva, Grasshopper, 3CX, Google, Ziff Davis, OpenPhone, CounterPath (Alianza)

www.marketwatch.com/press-release/...n-viber-cisco-2023-06-09

langer Abstinenz wieder an Rakuten zu erinnern.

https://www.ariva.de/rakuten-aktie/kurse/handelsplaetze

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Mobile network operators’ new industrialization revolution

By Geoff Hollingworth Chief Marketing Officer Rakuten Symphony

June 6, 2023

The industrialization revolution started 15 years ago – at least it did for some of the largest internet companies in the world.

These industry leaders sought out a more efficient way to manage their growing computing and networking infrastructures as profitability and scalability became a tipping point.

What they implemented became popularized in public cloud circles as the industrialization cycle. The first task was to standardize the infrastructure. Gone were the days of affectionately naming each server in the data center and along came standardization. This meant adopting a structured naming system as the starting point of creating an even more structured approach to building and operating the network.

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Rakuten Mobile and Tokyo Institute of Technology establish research center

www.communicationstoday.co.in/...y-establish-research-center/

Rakuten plans global expansion for STAY rental business

12th June 2023

Rakuten, is seeking to accelerate the international expansion of Rakuten STAY, its latest vacation rental model in which it will own, manage and operate its inventory.

Previously called Rakuten LIFULL STAY until Rakuten bought out LIFULL’s 49 per cent stake last year, Rakuten STAY’s real estate model is designed to own and operate its own brand of “wide spaces”, according to CEO Munekatsu Ota, including private villas and apartments. There are currently around 600 rooms of Rakuten STAY accommodations, which accommodate between eight and ten people, and the company aims to expand this to 10,000 in the future.

This is in addition to Rakuten’s existing Vacation STAY brand, which features around 100,000 listings of vacation rentals, hotels, apartments and special zone private lodgings in destinations such as Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto, Okinawa, Chiba and Kanagawa.

shorttermrentalz.com/news/rakuten-stay-expansion-japan-global/

Japanese E-commerce Giant Rakuten Unveils Unmanned Vacation Rentals Model

June, 13 2023

According to Munekatsu Ota, CEO of Rakuten STAY and an online travel and vacation rental veteran who’s spent much of his career with Rakuten, 90% of operating costs regarding the Rakuten STAY accommodations are already powered by Rakuten services.

“Inside the accommodation, we have e-commerce services where people can buy immediately via QR code. There’s Rakuten Music, Books, etc. Only water and gas are out of the Rakuten eco-system and with Rakuten working on energy – solar power and gas – soon, it will only be water that’s not provided by Rakuten,” laughed Ota.

The idea too is that these Rakuten STAY villas and apartments will be fully unmanned – no humans necessary, said Ota.

“This is a model only Rakuten can do,” said Ota, who said he’s studied various models including OYO and who is now based in Singapore to head the global expansion of the new business.

www.hotelnewsresource.com/article126811.html

The importance of Open RAN to sustainability and energy efficiency

June 14, 2023

Open RAN technologies can enable mobile operators to improve their network’s energy efficiency and contribute towards their sustainability efforts. Rob Hughes of Fujitsu discusses some of the new energy-savings features that we are seeing in radios, including the capabilities of the RAN intelligent controller (RIC) and service management and orchestration (SMO), and explains the role that automation will play in sustainability. He also reveals what additional innovations Fujitsu has contributed to virtualised RAN (vRAN) and suggests how networks will become even more energy efficient in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmUiRn5NeQ

March 15, 2023

On Wednesday 1st March 2023, GSMA was joined by security experts from Copper Horse Ltd., Fortinet, GSMA, Palo Alto Networks, Rakuten Symphony and Telus during the 5G Futures Summit at MWC23 Barcelona to discuss the significant security threats which have impacted the mobile telecommunications landscape in the last year. The session explored how the mobile ecosystem can build stronger security resilience, covering key security topics within infiltration, access exploitation and availability compromise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrg5MxhqCBM