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Rakuten Mobile to Start R&D on Autonomous Networks for 5G and Beyond

Oki Electric Industry, Nagoya University and Rakuten Mobile recently announced the launch of research and development into autonomous networks to…

VC Firm OurCrowd Raises $25M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2

OurCrowd, a venture platform has announced that SoftBank Vision Fund 2, will make a $25 million convertible equity investment into…

KDDI, DT & MobiledgeX Partner to Accelerate Edge-enabled Extended Reality

KDDI, Deutsche Telekom, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari have jointly developed a mobile application proof of concept to demonstrate an augmented…

HP Japan Joins DOCOMO's 5G Open RAN Ecosystem

NTT DOCOMO on Tuesday announced that Hewlett Packard Japan has joined the company's 5G Open RAN Ecosystem, which now counts…

Rakuten Mobile Taps Mobileum's Active Intelligence Platform

Mobileum on Tuesday announced that the company will deploy its best-in-class Active Intelligence Platform with Japan's newest mobile operator, Rakuten…

SoftBank Launches 5G SA Commercial Services in Japan

SoftBank has started to offer 5G standalone (5G SA) commercial services in conjunction with the sale of its new 5G-compatible SoftBank…

Rakuten Mobile Acquires Tower Firm JTOWER

Rakuten Mobile this week announced that it will acquire a part of JTOWER's shares from JTOWER's President and CEO Atsushi…

Rakuten Mobile to Offer Ubisense’s Advanced RTLS to Enterprise Customers

Rakuten Mobile and Ubisense, an industry leading provider of Industry IoT (IIoT), Digital Twin and smart factory solutions, announced the…

AOTS, DOCOMO to Conduct Trial of 5G-Enabled Remote Technical Training

AOTS, NTT DOCOMO and its Thailand-based subsidiary Mobile Innovation (MI) announced that they have reached an agreement to collaborate on…