James Dartnell

Mickey Mikitani gives his take on Rakuten Symphony's role in deploying 1&1's mobile network - Germany's fourth operator and the first telecom network in Europe based on Open RAN standards.

‍March 28, 2023, London, United Kingdom & Tokyo, Japan – Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Rakuten Symphony, Inc. and Rakuten Symphony UK Ltd. today opened the Rakuten Open RAN Customer Experience Center, United Kingdom, heralding a new era of British-Japanese technological collaboration and the European advanceme

Bloomberg Intelligence’s webinar ‘Is Open RAN living up to its disruptive potential?’ gave Rakuten Symphony Chief Marketing Officer Geoff Hollingworth the chance to share his thoughts on how operators can look beyond Open RAN to transform their network deployment, operations and TCO using Automation and AI. Open RAN has the ability to deliver a wide variety of previously unrecognized benefits to telecom, asserts Rakuten Symphony’s Chief Marketing Officer. Speaking on a recent Bloomberg Intelli

Rakuten Symphony, a subsidiary of the leading technology conglomerate, Rakuten Group, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services. The two companies will start exploring cooperation in Ukraine, with the goal of accelerating the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure.

The telecommunications industry is in dire need of modernization and risks being dominated by an elite minority if it refuses to change, Rakuten Group CEO and Chairman Mickey Mikitani told the World Government Summit in Dubai.