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SoftBank, KDDI to Share Base Station Assets for 5G Deployment in Rural Areas

SoftBank and KDDI announced they have reached an agreement on the mutual use of their base station assets to jointly…

NTT DOCOMO Teams Up with Line Pay and Merpay on Mobile Payment Service

LINE Pay, Merpay and NTT DOCOMO have signed a letter of intent for a business alliance to make cashless transactions…

Rakuten's New Live OTT Sports Streaming Brings the J.League to More Than 140 Countries

Rakuten this week announced the launch of Rakuten Sports, a new live streaming, VOD sports entertainment platform to deliver sports…

Japan's Rakuten Mobile Partners with NEC to Build Open vRAN Architecture

Rakuten Mobile and NEC this week announced that the two companies have formed a partnership to build the world's first…

KDDI to Develop Smartglasses Using XR Technology with nreal

KDDI has formed a strategic partnership with nreal, developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses, for the development of smartglasses using…

SoftBank Selects Nokia and Ericsson for 5G Rollout

SoftBank has selected Nokia and Ericsson as key 5G vendors for the deployment of a multi-band 5G network in Japan.…

DOCOMO, Ericsson Partner to Test Glass Antenna for 5G

NTT DOCOMO and Ericsson have partnered with AGC, a Japanese global glass manufacturing company, to showcase world's first 5G communication…

KDDI, Sumitomo Plan to Jointly Operate Mobile Game Publishing Business in Myanmar

KDDI and Sumitomo plan to jointly operate a mobile game publishing business in Myanmar through Funcreate Myanmar (FCM), a subsidiary…

DOCOMO Develops Safe, Blade-free Drone Blimp

NTT DOCOMO announced that it has developed a blimp-style drone that is propelled safely through the air with ultrasonic vibrations,…