Rakuten Mobile Network

Its mobile unit rakuten mobile aims to build 3 432 bases mainly in tokyo nagoya and osaka by the end of this fiscal year.

Rakuten mobile network. Japanese company rakuten mobile announced the full scale commercial launch of its mobile carrier service in the country. Tokyo october 2 2018 rakuten mobile network inc today announced that it has collaborated with nokia to successfully conduct over the air 5g trials using the nokia airscale base station and the intel 5g mobile trial platform. Construction of a radio antenna network is underway and on track for an october 2019. Since securing bandwidth approval from japan s ministry of internal affairs and communications in april 2018 rakuten has been forging ahead with construction of its own new mobile network driving world first disruptive innovation.

Rakuten mobile exporting open network approach to other operators. The trials were carried out from june in a shielded room at the nokia kawasaki technology center located in kanagawa prefecture in japan to evaluate fundamental. Rakuten mobile uses what the company says is the world s first virtualized mobile network which requires less hardware infrastructure lowering deployments costs and in turn allowing the. Rakuten mobile a unit of e commerce giant rakuten kicked off its commercial 4g service on april 8 becoming the fourth mobile operator in japan.

The rakuten mobile network will initially be a 4g lte network with macro and small cells as well as wi fi. Rakuten mobile is holding firm to its goal of deploying 5g this fall after it delayed the rollout blaming supply chain issues related to the covid 19 crisis. 1 using peer kddi s. To answer these questions tm forum analysts draw on extensive interviews with rakuten executives and the company s suppliers along with in depth research about the markets the company is targeting.

The greenfield mobile network. Rakuten mobile and telefónica sign mou to cooperate on openran july 1 2020 rakuten mobile and university of glasgow reach agreement to collaborate on research into edge computing and transport protocols june 30 2020 rakuten mobile un limit applications exceed 1 million. Rakuten will soon become the first new mobile network operator mno to launch in japan in over a decade.