Tag: Rakuten

WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 13, 2022 Rakuten Group, Inc. (the Company) is pleased to announce that it has been selected for the third consecutive year as an index component of the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (hereinafter DJSI World Index). The Company has also been selected as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index for the fourth consecutive year. The Companys efforts and proactive disclosure of information regarding its environmental and social practices, which led to the selection in the DJSI World Index, were recognized across a broad range of categories: risk and crisis management, brand ... Read more

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and NEC Corporation announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote Open RAN (open radio access networks) in global mobile telecommunications markets. In Japan, NEC is currently providing 5G radio units (5G RU) for Rakuten Mobile’s fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. The two companies are also jointly developing Rakuten Mobile’s containerized(1) 5G Stand Alone (SA) core network (5GC)(2). Under the MoU, Rakuten Mobile and NEC will expand upon their domestic collaboration to date to provide 5G and 4G Radios and engineering services for Open RAN systems aligned with O-RAN specifications(3) for global markets, ... Read more