TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan's Rakuten launched a mobile service network in 2020, the e-commerce and fintech giant promised to disrupt the world's third-largest telecoms market. It's done that in part ...

Rakuten Mobile to deploy 1Finity massive MIMO Open RAN radios at scale to enhance capacity and coverage for network customers across Japan.

Japanese MNO Rakuten Mobile has selected Samsung’s Open RAN compliant 5G radios for its nationwide mobile network across the ...

Rakuten Mobile is growing its customer base, but the cost of building a new national mobile network is still taking a significant toll on its finances. Revenues are ticking up at Japan’s fourth mobile ...

Rakuten on Tuesday logged its fifteenth consecutive quarter in the red as losses at its mobile service network unit outweighed a record performance from its financial unit. The internet conglomerate ...

Rakuten Mobile’s selection of Samsung is a testament to the company’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) and O-RAN leadership, honed through years of experience in global, large-scale commercial deployments.

Open RAN pioneer Rakuten Mobile has fallen on hard times over the past two years, with user adoption stalled, network spending curtailed and profitability apparently still far off. Its user base ...

I am positive on Rakuten Group, Inc.'s recent portfolio restructuring moves, which I think could narrow the valuation discount assigned to the company's shares. But I have a negative view of Rakuten ...