Rakuten claims it is one of the world’s first nationwide deployments of a RIC platform in a commercial Open RAN network, enabling AI-driven network optimisation, decision making, automation and ...

Rakuten Mobile fires up its RIC Motorola Solutions to acquire ad hoc mobile network builder Silvas Technologies Germany’s OneFiber to build out with Ciena In today’s industry news roundup: Rakuten ...

Rakuten Mobile, of which Kono is managing executive officer in addition to her role as Group CMO, has achieved remarkable growth, surpassing eight million subscribers in October 2024 and reaching 8.5 ...

WHEN Japan’s Rakuten launched a mobile service network in 2020, the eCommerce and financial technology giant promised to disrupt the world’s third-largest telecoms market. It’s done that in ...

Middle East operator Zain is to use Rakuten Symphony’s open RAN and cloud platform to deliver standalone (SA) 5G service in Kuwait, as part of the initial phase of a planned large-scale commercial ...

SoftBank Corp, through its subsidiary LY Corp, owns a majority stake in PayPay Bank. Last month it joined Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group to offer digital banking services. Rakuten Mobile parent ...

Reputable Apple leaker Sonny Dickson shared a first look at a prototype pair of Powerbeats Pro 2 in a transparent colorway. Apple initially debuted the Powerbeats Pro 2 back in February ...

Now, a few months later, Nvidia has launched its Blackwell architecture for laptops, and while these mobile Nvidia GPUs are nowhere near as powerful as their desktop counterparts, they do deliver ...

But the addition of children to the survey data also brings about another interesting shift: the percentage of gamers exclusively playing on mobile. In previous years, that number was 12% - but ...

Microsoft Corp. will launch its own online store for mobile-game consumables in July, creating an alternative to Apple Inc. and Google’s app stores and their fees. This would also include the ...

The company has signed cooperation agreements with more than thirty MNOs worldwide, including industry heavyweights such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten Mobile and Telefónica. By teaming up ...