Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

We announced in the last Mobile World Congress that AT&T is working with Rakuten Symphony on a few disruptive applications around the digital workflow on the operation for wireless and wireline, the same as Telefónica in the UK and Telefónica in Germany. Our first big breakthrough was an integrated stack.

In the heart of Europe, in Germany, we are the supplier for a new greenfield operator called 1&1. I told the CEO of 1&1 that my dream is to build Rakuten 2.0 in Germany, so we are building the entire fabric of this network. It has been an amazing journey to take all the lessons learned from Japan and be able now to bring them to Germany. We are in the early stages, but I am really optimistic to see what the future will hold for Open RAN as a whole for Symphony.

Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony have opened a well-needed, healthy debate in the industry about radio access supplier alternatives and diversification that we need in order to move away into a software-driven network. We feel that is a big accomplishment for us.

https://www.theverge.com/23297756/...e-ceo-oran-cloud-network-decoder  

https://www.edukasicampus.net/2022/05/...ew-exclusive-viki-korean.htm  

Global Over-The-Top (OTT) Market Anticipated to Garner a Revenue of $438.5 Billion by 2026 and Rise at a CAGR of 19.1% over the Analysis Timeframe 2019 to 2026

New York, USA, Sept. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the report published by Research Dive, the global over-the-top (OTT) market is envisioned to generate a revenue of $438.5 billion by 2026, growing at a noteworthy CAGR of 19.1% during the forecast period from 2019 to 2026.

The major players of the over-the-top (OTT) market include

Amazon Web Services

Telestra

VUDU, Inc.

Indieflix, Inc.

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Hulu, LLC

Apple Inc.

Kakapo Corp.

Netflix

Facebook

Google LLC

LINE Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Rakuten, Inc., and many more.

These market players are concentrating on developing strategies such as new product launches, research, and development, following trending market ideas, building product portfolios, mergers & acquisitions, collaborations, and business expansions.

https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/22/09/...on-by-2026-and-rise-a  

Excellent for Rakuten TV: AVOD market to reach US$260 billion annual revenue by 2025

Written by Richard Middleton 24th March 2022 11:32

AVOD streamers are set to flourish over the next three years and will hit revenues of almost $260bn by 2025, according to to the latest research from analysis powerhouse Omdia.

The findings, revealed to DTVE’s sister site TBI ahead of a session at Series Mania on Thursday, reveal that while SVOD revenues will not come near to overtaking global pay TV revenues in the next five years, the ad-supported market is a different matter.

Online video advertising is expected to overtake traditional linear TV globally in 2022, with a predicted revenue of $174bn this year set to surge to $259bn by 2025.

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2022/03/24/...annual-revenue-by-2025/  

Content publishers and affiliate channels are now more important than ever in the fight for consumer attention

Rakuten Advertising: Evolving channels and customer acquisition

30 Aug 2022 by Ian Jindal

Evolving channels and customer acquisition: how to attract and re engage the consumer

The sales cycle used to be a simple case of “attract, engage, convert”. Get a customer’s attention, propose or promote a sale, take the money. This is not the case anymore Google plans to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome browsers in 2023 in response to consumers’ increased demands on security and this will have a significant impact on the way marketers appeal to new and existing customers. This means content publishers and affiliate channels are now more important than ever in the fight for consumer attention.

https://internetretailing.net/reports/whitepapers/...mer-acquisition/  

Announcement Regarding Establishment of Rakuten Securities Holdings and Reorganization of Securities Business

September 9, 2022

(Progress of Matters for Disclosure)

After this, Rakuten Securities and Rakuten Investment Management would establish Rakuten Securities Holdings, Inc. (“Rakuten Securities HD”) as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company through a joint share transfer. We announced that the parent company of Rakuten Securities, etc. will be changed from the Company to Rakuten Securities HD on October 3, 2022, and that Rakuten Securities HD will prepare for listing on the stock exchange.

The details of Rakuten Securities HD have been decided as follows.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2022/...2520ir%2520fintech  

 

There exist no reason, that Rakuten Mobile subscribers will not surpass 25 million too

Rakuten Card Surpasses 25 Million Cards Issued

- Seven months since launch, second cards issued reach one million.

Tokyo, January 27, 2022 - Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. today announced that the total number of cards issued to Rakuten cardholders has surpassed 25 million as of December 2021. Additionally, the total number of second Rakuten Cards issued to Rakuten cardholders topped one million in only seven months since the full-scale launch of the additional card option in June 2021.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2022/0127_01.html  

The ecosystem of Rakuten is the best marketing machine of Japan - and with no or extrem low marketing costs for Rakuten Mobile. Not any of three MNO-comeptitors of Rakuten Mobile have such advantages.

And therefore Rakuten Mobile subscribers will surpass 25 million too like Rakuten Card.  

The average monthly per-user GMS on Rakuten Ichiba increased by 52% after subscribing to Rakuten Mobile, a strong demonstration of increased customer loyalty.

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2022/0810_02.html  

Meanwhile, the penetration rate of Rakuten Mobile among Rakuten Ecosystem users rose to 11.9% in about two years. Raising this to 30% is “not unrealistic” (Mr. Mikitani), and aims to further increase the penetration rate.

In addition, the Rakuten Mobile contract also makes the user loyal, and he reiterated that Rakuten Mobile is contributing to the expansion of the Rakuten ecosystem.

https://oorainbowoo.tokyo/...cellations-are-0-yen-users-keitai-watch/  

Rakuten Fulfillment Network Delivers Logistics Evolution in France

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-5fX5_hm4  

"In the future, we would like to achieve 12 million (applications for Rakuten Mobile) as early as possible by further improving our regional network and strengthening our regional marketing."

https://oorainbowoo.tokyo/...cellations-are-0-yen-users-keitai-watch/  

The initial speed of Rakuten Mobile is faster than the developent of Rakuten Card in its early times

"You were aiming for 12 million applications, but do you have any details such as the target time?

Mr. Mikitani
I think that it will progress with the expansion of the network.

We are also conducting marketing by region, so we would like to announce our acquisition target at the appropriate time.

Compared to the initial speed of Rakuten Card, which is currently approaching 30 million, we believe that it is still overwhelmingly fast."

https://oorainbowoo.tokyo/...cellations-are-0-yen-users-keitai-watch/  

Regarding Rakuten Symphony, he( Mikitani) said, “There are so-called applications from about 115 customers, and the number of existing customers is 13.”

“1&1” has already been tested for commercialization, with a maximum speed of 1 Gbps and a latency of 3 ms.

“We have achieved overwhelming cost efficiency, overwhelming performance, and stable operation centered on AI,” he said, and will continue to develop it in the future.

https://oorainbowoo.tokyo/...cellations-are-0-yen-users-keitai-watch/  

"25 Mobilfunkanbieter bei AST Spacemobile im Boot

AST Spacemobile hat sich Partner gesichert, die beabsichtigen, die angebotenen Leistungen tatsächlich abzunehmen. 25 Mobilfunkanbieter haben sich bereits verbindlich verpflichtet.

Davon beteiligen sich zehn Unternehmen auch an dem geplanten sechsmonatigen Testbetrieb von Blue Walker 3, der über sechs Kontinenten stattfinden soll.

Zu den Partnern gehören unter anderem Vodaphone, Rakuten Mobile und Orange."

https://t3n.de/news/satellit-bluewalker3-heller-nur-mond-1497954/
 

RADCOM Renews Cloud-Native Assurance Solutions Contract with Rakuten Mobile

TEL AVIV, Israel , Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RADCOM Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDCM) today announced that it has renewed its initial contract signed in 2019 with Rakuten Mobile Inc. With this renewal, RADCOM will continue its successful partnership with Rakuten Mobile, providing advanced cloud-native assurance solutions for Rakuten Mobile's network in Japan.

"RADCOM's cloud-native assurance solutions enable us to monitor service quality across our nationwide deployment and gain real-time service and network analytics," said Sharad Sriwastawa, chief technology officer of Rakuten Mobile, Inc. "This helps us proactively identify issues and troubleshoot them to maintain the highest quality of service for subscribers while ensuring our cloud-based network is fully optimized using lean, efficient engineering teams."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...oud-native-assurance-114500628.html
 

The Japanese ecommerce market is estimated to register a growth of 6.9% to reach JPY22.4 trillion ($194.3 billion) in 2022, according to a new report from GlobalData.

Japan is the fourth leading ecommerce market globally. China is the top market with total sales of $2.1 trillion, followed by the US with $1.5 trillion, and the UK with $292.1 billion.

The Japanese ecommerce market is dominated by domestic online retailers such as Rakuten and Mercari. However, international ecommerce retailers such as Amazon and Yahoo are gaining popularity among the Japanese consumers. Online shopping events such as White Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday have supported the ecommerce growth in the country.

In addition, nearly 70% of Japanese consumers have shopped online in the past month, while only 8% indicated that they never shopped online.

“The Japan e-commerce market has registered sustainable growth over the last five years supported by high mobile and online penetration and high consumer preference for online transactions,” GlobalData banking and payments lead analyst Ravi Sharma said.

https://www.chargedretail.co.uk/2022/09/13/...to-grow-by-6-9-in-2022/  

UNBOXING IPHONE 13 PRO Alpine Green| Rakuten Mobile

Hello Friends, I am here unboxing Iphone 13 Pro Alpine Green from Rakuten Mobile. I switch my current phone service from LINEMO to Rakuten Mobile because of its benefits. After changing service both run the same internet quality but i think Rakuten offer quite cheaper plan, Pay as you use. for example From 0-3GB 980yen, 3GB-20GB 1980yen and from 20GB to unlimited is 2980yen. while LINEMO have the fix plan of 3GB for 900yen and 20GB for 2480yen ( Exc. Tax) Currently Rakuten Mobile offering a Promotion if you switch company MNP and purchase a new Iphone together you can receive 24000 point. I will upload another video after receive the point. Thanks guys! follow me on Instagram: piichan_nel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQsAfzKEsGY  

Rakuten owning 5% of AST SpaceMobile and is a client of AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 Direct-to-Cell Test Satellite Launches to Orbit on a Rocket - YouTube

AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 test satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:20m pm EDT on September 10, 2022. AST's roughly 1.5-ton spacecraft with a 693-square-foot antenna array — one designed to connect ordinary, unmodified phones to cellular broadband — reached orbit about 45 minutes after liftoff.

https://www.youtube.com/...mPN2PbqqqtDnefewntL9ObUci3apdC&index=1



 

Open RAN sites work just as well as conventional ones

How Open RAN milestones are being met is as notable as what milestones are being met.

Last year Telefonica O2 selected NEC as its prime integrator for its global Open RAN program, spanning initiatives in Spain, Germany, Brazil and the UK.

Last week (August 30th) saw the announcement of VMO2’s first live Open RAN site in the UK, “in the Northamptonshire region”. Initially, this provides 4G coverage, with 5G to follow “imminently”, according to our sources. This initial site is a full macro site, capable of supporting rural in-fill or dense urban environments. (In the English Midlands, Northamptonshire has a population of around 750,000 people, with county town Northampton home to just over 200,000.)

VMO2 is benchmarking the site’s performance against conventional site KPIs – call drop ratios, throughput – and our understanding is that the site meets or exceeds the required KPIs. Conclusion: Open RAN sites work just as well as conventional ones.

The VMO2 milestone provides just such evidence. NEC as lead SI, Rakuten Symphony (centered on the former Altiostar’s open vRAN), and a number of other vendors – radio units, cloud platform, x86 platform – have been able to deliver a fully-functioning site using open RAN specifications within around 6 months.

The latest evidence that a newly formed ecosystem of vendors can collaborate quickly and effectively should give heart to the Open RAN pioneers and give even the more sceptical pause for thought. More choice is what open RAN fundamentally aims to provide – and that can only work if the choices made can actually collaborate effectively.

For VMO2, there remain many further questions and phases to go through: additional sites, integration into wider operational support systems and processes, further operational proving. Though a modest achievement at one level (Rakuten Mobile has 44,000 macro open RAN sites), VMO2’s first live open RAN site in the UK is nonetheless significant, as much for how it was achieved, as for what has been achieved. We look forward to further progress reports.

https://appledoreresearch.com/2022/09/08/...ran-nec-rakuten-symphony/  

Cabify Bets On Toyota Mirai For The First VTC Fleet Powered By Hydrogen In Spain (fuelcellsworks.com)

https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/...leet-powered-by-hydrogen-in-spain/  

"Sun Drug" eröffnete im Dezember 2009 einen Laden als "Sun Drug E-Shop" im Internet-Einkaufszentrum "Rakuten Ichiba". Darüber hinaus wurde in "Sun Drug" und "Drug Tops", nach der Einführung von "Rakuten Edy" ab Mai 2016, der Einführung des gemeinsamen Punktedienstes "Rakuten Point Card" ab Juli 2019, der Smartphone-Zahlung "Rakuten Pay (App Payment)" im März 2020 verfügbar und "Direx" führte "Rakuten Edy" ab April 2020 ein. Wir arbeiten seit einiger Zeit mit der Rakuten Group zusammen. Durch die Einführung einer neuen Edy-Karte mit originellem Design werden wir die weitere Verbesserung des Komforts für die Benutzer fördern.

Sun Drug, Rakuten Payment und Rakuten Edy werden Nutzern und Händlern weiterhin eine äußerst bequeme Zahlungsumgebung bieten und darauf abzielen, die Zufriedenheit zu verbessern.

Sun Drug Group Co., Ltd. hat landesweit 946 Drogerien und 335 Discounter (Stand Ende März 2022). Mit dem Ziel, ein "gesundes und wohlhabendes Leben" für das japanische Volk zu verwirklichen, werden wir uns weiterhin bemühen, unseren Kunden mit den Schlüsselwörtern "Sicherheit, Vertrauen und Bequemlichkeit" bessere Dienstleistungen anzubieten.

Rakuten Payment Co., Ltd. wurde im April 2019 als Unternehmen gegründet, das Dienstleistungen hauptsächlich in den Bereichen Zahlungsverkehr und Marketing der Rakuten-Gruppe entwickelt. Derzeit betreiben wir die Dienste "Rakuten Pay (App Payment)", "Rakuten Pay (Brick-and-Mortar Payment)", "Rakuten Point Card", "Rakuten Check", "Rakuten Edy" und "Rakuten Cash". Wir bieten unseren Kunden freundliche, bequeme und sichere Zahlungsdienste und eine breite Palette von Abwicklungsdiensten, die auf die Art des Geschäfts und der Geschäftsart für Händler zugeschnitten sind, sowie Geschäftsunterstützung durch Marketingprogramme, die Daten verwenden.

Rakuten Edy Co., Ltd. betreibt das IC-artige E-Geld "Rakuten Edy" der Rakuten Group und das Online-E-Geld "Rakuten Cash". Als Pionierunternehmen für bargeldloses Bezahlen bieten wir sichere Abwicklungsdienstleistungen an, und derzeit konzentrieren wir uns nicht nur auf die Entwicklung von Franchisenehmern wie Supermärkten im ganzen Land, sondern auch auf neue Initiativen wie den Betrieb von bargeldlosen Stadien und die bargeldlose Förderung in Zusammenarbeit mit lokalen Regierungen im ganzen Land und in Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedenen Diensten der Rakuten-Gruppe. Wir werden bessere Dienstleistungen anbieten, um den Komfort und die Zufriedenheit von E-Geld-Nutzern und Händlern weiter zu verbessern.

"Rakuten Edy" ist ein Prepaid-E-Geld der Rakuten Group, das landesweit an rund 1 Million Standorten (Stand 1. Juni 2022) eingesetzt werden kann, darunter Convenience-Stores, Supermärkte, Restaurants, Verkaufsautomaten, Taxis und Tankstellen. "Rakuten Edy" verfügt über Waren, die mit EDY-Funktionen wie Karten, Apps (*), Schlüsselanhängern usw. ausgestattet sind, die im Voraus mit Bargeld oder Kreditkarte usw. aufgeladen (hinterlegt) und zur Zahlung verwendet werden können. Wenn Sie es im Voraus festlegen, können Sie "Rakuten Points" usw. sammeln, und die gesammelten "Rakuten Points" können für die Zahlung in Geschäften in der Stadt und bei jedem Service der Rakuten Group verwendet werden.

https://payment.rakuten.co.jp/news/2022081500/
 

Rakuten Securities startetAngebot "Yield Investment (Funds)" - Zusätzlich zu Anleihen ist es jetzt möglich, in kreditartige Crowdfunding-Dienstleistungen zu investieren!

https://www.rakuten-sec.co.jp/web/company/newsrelease/fy2022.html
 

Open RAN highlights from the 2Q 2022 RAN report:

Top 3 Open RAN revenue suppliers for the 1H22 period include Samsung, Fujitsu and NEC

Open RAN revenues in the North America region increased nearly four-fold year over year

North America and the Asia Pacific are driving more than 95 percent of the 2Q 2022 Open RAN market

The baseline forecast is for Open RAN revenues to more than double in 2022

Open RAN is now projected to account for more than 5 percent of the overall RAN market in 2022.

https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/...hes-expectations-in-1h22