Rakuten names the go-live day as 1 October with limited free trial
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08 September 2019 |
Orange signs global roaming agreement with Rakuten Mobile
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29 October 2019 |
Rakuten picks Netrounds for automated service assurance
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27 November 2019 |
Nokia to operate Rakuten’s virtualised core as a managed service
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25 February 2020 |
Rakuten shakes up Japanese market with “shocking” low price plan
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04 March 2020 |
Rakuten Mobile opts for Nokia’s optical transport for 5G cloud-native network
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10 March 2020 |
Greenfield US operator opts for OpenRAN from Mavenir
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24 April 2020 |
Open RAN coalition launches to ‘spur competition’ and push for federal 5G support
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06 May 2020 |
Rakuten buys OSS company to advance cloud-native blueprint vision
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14 May 2020 |
Rakuten delays 5G launch date citing pandemic
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19 May 2020 |
Altiostar tests O-RAN-compliant 5G with NEC and Rakuten
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20 May 2020 |
NEC to develop Rakuten’s 5G core
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03 June 2020 |
NTT allies with NEC for joint R&D and global ICT deployment
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25 June 2020 |
DISH enters multi-year agreement with Altiostar for open RAN deployment
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01 July 2020 |
University of Glasgow enters research agreement with Rakuten Mobile
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02 July 2020 |
Keys to the kingdom: OpenRAN seeks to break open vendor lock-in
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31 July 2020 |
Rakuten and Telefónica to collaborate on OpenRAN
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17 September 2020 |
Rakuten Mobile launches 5G, questions remain
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30 September 2020 |
Vodafone and NEC to trial Open RAN
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19 October 2020 |
Two analysts predict Open RAN will dominate market by end of decade
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22 October 2020 |