Rakuten Launches Rakuten Symphony to accelerate adoption of cloud-native, Open RAN-based mobile networks worldwide

Tareq Amin, Chief Technology Officer at Rakuten Group and Rakuten Symphony CEO said, 'With Rakuten Symphony, we're more than excited to empower greenfield and brownfield telco operators, enterprises and governments around the world to easily build and deploy cloud-native network services. Building on our experience and learning from one of the most competitive markets in the world, we will be relentlessly focused on offering customers high security, quality network performance, cost transparency and the flexibility of open standards.'

In addition, Rakuten disclosed today the acquisition of the remaining equity of U.S.-based mobile technology company, Altiostar Networks, Inc. Rakuten and Altiostar will partner to accelerate deployment of software-centric, virtualized services for the mobile industry across the globe.

Rakuten also announced today a long-term partnership with German mobile operator 1&1 to build Europe's first fully virtualized mobile network based on innovative Open RAN technology. 1&1 will leverage the full Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) stack of access, core, cloud and operations solutions.

Rakuten's move into the global telco platform business with a successful reference from its mobile arm in Japan is expected to further differentiate its position as a global leader in cloud-centric, virtualized, Open RAN-based mobile networks.

Rakuten Symphony looks forward to making further announcements soon relevant to global expansion, sales activities and product development and innovations.

About Rakuten Symphony
Rakuten Symphony, a Rakuten Group business organization with operations across Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, Europe and the MEA region, develops and brings to the global marketplace cloud-native, open RAN telco infrastructure platforms, services and solutions, including the Rakuten Communications Platform.