Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
August 12, 2025
Edge cloud will enhance Japan’s already impressive track record of customer service, executives from Google Cloud and Rakuten Cloud told Rakuten AI Optimism on August 1. Vijay Tewari, Director, Product Management, Google Cloud Platform and Anirban Chakravartti (Oni), Senior Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Sales for the Cloud Business Unit (Rakuten Cloud), Rakuten Symphony joined Rakuten Symphony’s Director of Corporate Communications James Dartnell to find out how the Rakuten Cloud-Google Distributed Cloud partnership is enabling AI-driven applications at the edge across industries.
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https://www.tipranks.com/news/...s-call-strong-growth-amid-challenges
May 13, 2025
Join SK from Rakuten Symphony as he speaks with Tarkan Alagoz, Chief Revenue Officer from Odine, about their exciting partnership and expansion plans. Discover how Odine & Rakuten Symphony are leveraging cutting-edge 5G technology to revolutionize connectivity in Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa. In this video, we dive into:
The booming 5G landscape and opportunities in Turkey
Odine's ambitious vision for expanding into the African market
How Rakuten Symphony's solutions are perfectly matched to address Africa's unique challenges.
The value that Rakuten Symphony brings to the market and to Odine.
Learn how this partnership is set to benefit Africa and potentially expand to other regions in the future.
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by Marcin Frąckiewicz on 14 August 2025
AST SpaceMobile: Texas-based AST SpaceMobile is building a constellation of BlueBird satellites designed as space-based cellular broadband towers. AST made headlines in April 2023 by conducting the world’s first space-based two-way voice call directly with standard smartphones (no special handset needed) en.wikipedia.org fierce-network.com. In that test, a call from a Samsung Galaxy S22 in Texas went through AST’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite and down to Rakuten’s network in Japan, using AT&T’s cellular spectrum satellitetoday.com fierce-network.com. By September 2023, AST had also demonstrated the first 5G phone call from space, calling from a dead zone in Hawaii to a Vodafone engineer in Spain via the satellite fierce-network.com fierce-network.com. They even achieved a 4G/5G data session around 14 Mbps downlink on a 5 MHz channel during tests fierce-network.com – slow by terrestrial standards, but a major proof of concept. AST’s approach is to launch relatively few very large satellites, each with high capacity. In September 2024, the company launched its first 5 commercial satellites (BlueBird 1–5) on a SpaceX rocket ast-science.com space.com. These BlueBird satellites have beams up to 40 MHz wide, potentially delivering up to ~120 Mbps per beam in ideal conditions about.att.com businesswire.com. AST is backed by major telecom companies: Vodafone, Rakuten (Japan), American Tower, Bell Canada, and AT&T have all invested in or partnered with AST businesswire.com businesswire.com. In fact, AT&T, Vodafone, and even Google poured $155 million of strategic funding into AST in early 2024 to help it roll out this tech businesswire.com businesswire.com. AST boasts that it has agreements with over 40 mobile operators worldwide (covering 2+ billion subscribers) keen to use its satellite-to-phone service once ready businesswire.com fierce-network.com. The plan is to start with equatorial coverage and scale to global coverage by late 2025 or 2026 by launching dozens of satellites on Blue Origin and other rockets spacenews.com. The ultimate vision: deliver broadband (not just texting) to standard phones, effectively a space-based 4G/5G network. As AST’s CEO Abel Avellan said, “Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers” businesswire.com businesswire.com.
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