Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
2023 New Players & Uniform Presentation
https://www.vissel-kobe.co.jp/news/article/20913.html
Dublin, Dec. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
The global mmWave 5G market size is expected to reach USD 7.51 billion by 2030, according to a new study. The report gives a detailed insight into current market dynamics and provides an analysis of future market growth.
The growing demand for the mmWave spectrum in telecommunications, medical and security services is due to its ability to transfer a large amount of data efficiently. Furthermore, increasing demand for higher bandwidth and consumer shift towards fifth-generation technology is one of the major factors driving the market.
Forecast Period 2022 - 2030
Estimated Market Value (USD) in 2022 $2.57 billion
Forecasted Market Value (USD) by 2030 $7.51 billion
Compound Annual Growth Rate 14.3%
Companies Mentioned
Airspan Networks
Alcan Systems
AMD
AT&T
Corning
Ericsson
Fastweb
Fujitsu
Huawei
JMA Wireless
Keysight Technologies
Mavenir
Movandi
Nokia
NTT Docomo
NXP Semiconductors
Pharrowtech
Pivotal Commware
Qualcomm
Rakuten Mobile
Renesas Electronics Coerporation
Samsung
Singtel
Sivers Semiconductors
Softbank
Verana Networks
Verizon Communications Inc.
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/608349050/...ration-tech-fuels-growth
https://www.capital.de/geld-versicherungen/...ihnachten-33023948.html
Auf mittlere und längere Sicht werden diese Inflationsdifferenzen und die reduziertenZinsdifferenzen den Yen weiter aufwerten lassen.
Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. (JCR) announces the following credit rating. Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. Bonds: A
December 2, 2022
Rationale Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. is the credit card company of Rakuten Group (the "Group"). The Company’s unity with the Group, in terms of management decision-making and corporate control, is strong as shown that the latter owns 100% of the Company’s voting rights and sends multiple directors. The Company is in a strategically important position providing settlement / financial functions and also customer retention through awarding points for the Group as the main company of the Group’s Fin Tech business. Taking the above into consideration, JCR determines the Company’s long-term issuer rating is the same as the Group’s creditworthiness of A equivalent. The bonds to be issued are senior bonds and the rating is on par with the long-term issuer rating.
Issue Amount (bn) Issue Date Due Date Coupon Rating
Bonds no. 9 JPY 50 Dec. 16, 2022 Dec. 16, 2027 1.65% A
https://www.jcr.co.jp/en/ratinglist/finance/850656/
29. Dezember 2022
Am 28. Dezember 2022 vermarktete das Unternehmen einen Kommunikationsdienst mit Mobilfunktechnologie für Festnetzkommunikationsanwendungen und führte 5G als Mobilfunktechnologie ein.
Frankfurt am Main in Hessen und Karlsruhe in Baden=Württemberg sind die ersten Gebiete, die in wenigen Wochen auf andere Gebiete ausgeweitet werden sollen.
Preispläne werden separat für Datenkommunikation und Terminals erstellt, und die Summe der Datenkommunikations- und Terminaltarifpläne ist die monatliche Gebühr.
Datentarife haben eine Mindestvertragslaufzeit von 24 Monaten und sind in drei Ausführungen erhältlich: Hause 50, Hause 100 und Hause 250.
Die monatliche Gebühr und die monatliche Datenkommunikationskapazität betragen 50 GB für 19,99 Euro (ca. 2.800 Yen), 100 GB für 29,99 Euro (ca. 4.300 Yen) und 250 GB für 39,99 Euro (ca. 5.700 Yen).
Die maximale Downlink-Geschwindigkeit beträgt 500Mbps und die maximale Download-Geschwindigkeit beträgt 40Mbps, und wenn die vorgeschriebene monatliche Datenkommunikationskapazität überschritten wird, wird die Kommunikationsgeschwindigkeit begrenzt und die maximale Downlink-Geschwindigkeit beträgt 384kbps / Uplink Maximum 64kbps bis Ende des Monats.
Es stehen zwei Arten von stationären WLAN-Routern zur Verfügung, und Sie können aus zwei Arten von Terminalpreisplänen wählen: 1&1 HomeServer 5G und 1&1 HomeServer+.
Ersterer hat eine monatliche Gebühr von 6,99 Euro (ca. 1.000 Yen), kommt mit 100 GB Cloud-Speicher und bietet einen stationären WLAN-Router mit eingebauter 5G-Antenne im Hauptgerät.
Letzterer kommt mit 150 GB Cloud-Speicher für eine monatliche Gebühr von 9,99 Euro (ca. 1.400 Yen), und der stationäre WLAN-Router wird durch den Anschluss einer 5G-Außenantenne genutzt.
Es ist zu beachten, dass die niedrigste monatliche Wartungsgebühr 26,98 Euro (ca. 3.800 Yen) beträgt, und wenn Sie einen neuen Vertrag unterzeichnen, fällt eine einmalige Anfangsgebühr von 39,95 Euro (ca. 5.700 Yen) an.
Das 5G-Funksystem verwendet das NR-System, und die NR-Funkausrüstung wird von der NEC Corporation (Japan Electric) bezogen.
Die Konfiguration des Funkzugangsnetzes (Radio Access Network, RAN) ist ein dualer Modus aus Standalone- (SA) und Nicht-Standalone-Konfiguration (NSA), und das LTE-System des Mobilfunksystems der vierten Generation (4G), das als Ankerband für den Betrieb in der NSA-Konfiguration fungiert, wird ebenfalls vorbereitet.
Da es ursprünglich für Festnetzkommunikation kommerzialisiert wurde, ist es nicht für das inländische Roaming vorgesehen, und die Frequenz des NR-Systems kann im 3,5-GHz-Band verwendet werden, das von 1&1 Mobilfunk erworben wurde, und die Frequenz des LTE-Systems kann im 2,6-GHz-Band verwendet werden, das von Telefonica Germany, einem deutschen Mobilfunknetzbetreiber (MNO), ausgeliehen wurde.
Das NR-Band ist das FR1 n78 und das LTE-Band ist B7.
Die Rakuten Group arbeitet beim Aufbau von 5G zusammen und übernimmt eine offene RAN-basierte Plattform, die von Rakuten Symphony bereitgestellt wird und sich vollständig im Besitz der Rakuten Group über Rakuten Mobile befindet.
Für mobile Kommunikationsanwendungen plant das Unternehmen, das Produkt im Sommer 2023 zu kommerzialisieren.
http://blogofmobile.com/article/155874
December 16, 2022
By Haridev Cheviry
Associate Director of Solutions - Symworld Cloud
Symworld Cloud simplifies the operations and lifecycle management of 5G applications at scale and demystifies the complexity around 5G and network functions management. The simplified end-to-end automation and App-Store-like user interface make the management of applications easy for operators. This is relevant for several reasons. Some of the key requirements when operators deploy their telco solutions include the following:
Managing their network functions in a cloud-native world
Achieving high scalability, low latency, and high throughput for their 5G applications
Achieving bare-metal performance at the edge and the core
To achieve all of the above, operators need to overcome several challenges. Whether it is far edge or RAN CU/DU or 5G workloads, they need to be fine-tuned for deploying applications on a bare-metal server or in a cloud environment to achieve the desired, optimized performance. The 5G network functions typically require multiple types of network interfaces. They should also be resilient to NIC port failures, which calls for NIC bonding. The IP address assigned for these applications or network functions should be persistent, with the occasional need for a static IP to enable seamless communication.
Then there are other requirements as well, such as the need to have multiple gateway support – for management, control-plane and user-plane. Some networks also require dual-stack support (IPv4/IPv6), to support communication across existing and newer network functions.
Another major concern is a scenario where an operator will have some vendor applications in VNF format, and the others are containerized. In such circumstances, the operator would need to build a separate cluster or cloud platform to run the VNF, such as OpenStack or VMware cluster. Needless to say, managing multiple clusters from different vendors – on containers or VNFs – is not easy, and would involve considerable manual effort. The isolation of resources, configuration, and deploying them to achieve bare-metal performance are also some of the key challenges facing operators today.
So, let’s take a look at how we solve these challenges using Symworld Cloud Native Platform (CNP) and its unique architecture.
Carrier-grade networking: Symworld CNP is a carrier-grade Kubernetes platform – built and enhanced on top of open-source Kubernetes. Its carrier-grade networking stack includes all open-source CNIs that are required by operators to run their vendor applications. Support for OVS, MACVLAN, SR-IOV, DPDK, overlay and underlay networking, persistent and static IPs, dual-stack, and multiple NICs are all in-built into the cloud platform. Symworld CNP can be deployed on bare metal, VM, or any public cloud. It comes with a one-click deployment script that is capable of deploying an entire cluster anywhere.
Application awareness: As an application-aware storage solution, Symworld CNP caters to all the storage needs for a cloud-native deployment. Symworld CNP’s application-aware storage understands the requirements of the application and ensures that the storage disks are programmed accordingly. So whenever the application requests a volume, CNP will make sure it is rightly placed. Users can take application snapshots, clones, and backups and restore them to the same cluster or a different cluster. In scenarios such as migration and outages, while taking a backup of the application, the original information stored would be restored to the new cluster.
Advanced placement and API integration: CNP’s advanced scheduler looks into better resource utilization through NUMA-aware placement, CPU pinning, HugePages, and affinity and anti-affinity-based placement of applications in Kubernetes. Observability and monitoring are built-in using open-source Prometheus and Grafana. The user would be able to deploy the application either using SymworldTM Cloud bundles, Helm charts, or kubectl commands. Full API integration enhances end-to-end automation for the lifecycle management of the application.
How Symworld Cloud accelerates key 5G use cases
Symworld Cloud currently solves problems associated with radio access networks (RAN), CNFs/VNFs in the telco environment, mobile edge cloud (MEC), and core applications used in EPC.
Deploying vRAN components on x86 servers: We make sure that advanced scheduling, storage and networking requirements for RAN applications running on Kubernetes are fully automated. The application owners just need to specify what they need, Symworld CNP makes sure it is achieved on the underlying infrastructure using advanced automation, placement rules, and so on, enabling bare-metal performance with low latency and high throughput on the hardware where the RAN CU/DU workloads are deployed.
Rapid instantiation of services: MEC applications can be deployed along with RAN CU, UPF, enterprise, or any edge application that needs to go into the edge data center. With Symworld Cloud, operators can create a multi-tenant App-Store-like service portal to simplify the delivery and distribution of new apps to MEC.
Stateless and complex-stateful workloads: Highly scalable 5G core that needs to run in the central data center is also taken care of with the storage and network use cases that are required for those applications. Operators can manage entire application stacks – cloud-native or non-cloud-native – on Kubernetes.
Automation of virtual to cloud-native architecture: If the application vendor has a CNF (cloud-native network function) or VNF (virtual network function) that must run on the same platform simultaneously, Symworld Cloud can manage them. Application lifecycle management is also possible using Symworld Cloud bundle or helm chart. All of this means operators and vendors can package applications in their own model and Symworld Cloud will be able to run it.
Carrier-grade networking stack – built on open-source CNIs
On the abstraction layer, Symworld Cloud has the IPAM (IP address manager) using which users and administrators can create different IP pools based on application requirements. So the IP pool can have an IP subnet range, mask, and gateway related to that specific network. The network in turn can be mapped to specific CNIs such as Calico, OVS, MACVLAN, and SRIOV – or AWS CNI or Azure CNI for public cloud deployments. For SRIOV, the user can specify the drivers like Kernel-based driver, IAVF driver, IGB UIO driver, VFI, or PCI driver for DPDK applications. Users can also specify additional settings on the IP pools, such as DNS routes NIC tags, and tenants.
Once the users create an IP pool, when they are ready to deploy the application, they can just specify the IP pool name for it.
Users can assign more than one IP pool to an application, whether it is a CNF or VNF. To have multiple IP addresses assigned for a CNF, multi-CNI support is built into the platform. Symworld Cloud also supports DPDK or VPP for enhanced packet processing. It supports those libraries and the integration with the Kubernetes platform is seamless.
To summarize, in a telco data center, Symworld Cloud can help set up an end-to-end stack connecting the top-of-rack switch all the way to the IP address management of an application. All of this is achieved through the carrier-grade networking stack that we built on top of open-source Kubernetes.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...oyment-using-symworld-cnp-part-i
Rakuten Group's quarterly domestic e-commerce GMS 2014-2022
Published by C. Diep, Dec 7, 2022
In the second quarter of 2022, the domestic gross transaction value of the Rakuten Group's e-commerce segment amounted to approximately 1.3 trillion Japanese yen, up over 12 percent compared to the second quarter of the previous year. The Japanese online retailing company is headquartered in Tokyo, where it was founded in 1997.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/223341/...tic-e-commerce-revenue/
Singapore, Dec 9, 2022 — FreakOut is pleased to announce their newly formed alliance with Viki, Asian content OTT giant, which will enable SEA advertisers to access Viki’s highly engaged and niche audience; Korean and Japanese drama viewers as well as K-pop fans. Over the last couple of years there has been a growing wave of cultural diffusion and an increased viewership of Japanese and Korean content around the world. Freakout’s advertisers will now be able to capture and connect with this coveted audience easily.
Rakuten Viki, which was launched in 2007, has evolved to become the largest East Asian content library consisting of 900 titles. Every year, over a 100 new Japanese, Chinese, and Korean shows are added, making it the go-to platform for Asian entertainment. The platform has over 7 million fans in Asia alone – a unique audience profile of a female majority audience, with 60% of viewers being millennials.
With this partnership, FreakOut is opening a different niche of audience to its advertisers while leveraging Viki’s loyal fanbase and audience metrics to create a seamless ad experience for both, advertisers and viewers alike. FreakOut will aim at helping Viki monetise their traffic by serving ads from premium brands and products on the platform while maintaining relevance to their viewer’s profile . On the other hand, Viki’s inventory will be available via FreakOut’s SSP, enabling advertisers to experience brand lift by showcasing their brand message in a highly viewable environment, to a highly engaged audience. In addition to that, advertisers can receive added insight and support from FreakOut to strengthen and fortify their campaign.
About FreakOut
FreakOut is a global marketing technology company with programmatic solutions (DSP, SSP) that delivers in-feed display and video formats across global publishers. Headquartered in Singapore, FreakOut has 11 offices across 10 countries which include China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and USA. FreakOut is a part of FreakOut Holdings, Inc. which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE:6094) and oversees the investments for FreakOut.
https://freakout.net/newsroom/pressreleases/...ott-inventory-viki-fo/
Rakuten Mobile targets adding 10,000 in the Q4/22 to bring the total to 60,000 sites, providing 99 per cent population coverage.
when after window-dressing in 2022 investors come in again and shortsellers must cover at the same time.
Mit der Einführung von Club R Pay ist Rakuten France der erste E-Commerce-Player, der eine integrierte digitale Zahlungsmethode anbietet, die mit einem Cashback-System verbunden ist
Rakuten France kündigt die Einführung einer neuen integrierten Zahlungslösung an – Club R Pay – und ist damit der erste E-Commerce-Player, der ein solches Zahlungsgerätin der Welt der Marktplätze anbietet. Club R Pay ist eine universelle integrierte Zahlungslösung und ermöglicht es 12 Millionen französischen Mitgliedern des Club R-Treueprogramms, auf mehr als 2.000 Websites problemlos Einkäufe zu tätigen und gleichzeitig auf Rakuten belohnt zu werden. Diese neue Initiative ist ein konkretes Beispiel für die Vision von Rakuten für den Handel von morgen und ermöglicht es Rakuten, die Einkaufsreise zu rationalisieren, aber auch seine Partner bei ihrer Digitalisierung und Entwicklung zu unterstützen.
Mit Club R ermöglicht Rakuten Markenpartnern, ihren digitalen Umsatz auf ihrer eigenen Website zu steigern. Als echter Marketing-Akquisitionspartner ermöglicht Club R Marken, seine 12 Millionen treuen und engagierten Käufer in Frankreich zu erreichen. Ein wichtiger Hebel, um Wachstum zu generieren.
Club R Pay wurde auch entwickelt, um es Partnern zu ermöglichen, ihre Marketingausgaben zu optimieren: Dank eines leistungsbasierten Preismodells zahlen Partner nur, wenn der Benutzer einen Kauf tätigt.
Schließlich erfordert diese Zahlungslösung "Plug and Play" keine aufwändige Entwicklung auf Partnerseite. Universal ist allgegenwärtig, es lässt sich leicht in die Kaufreise integrieren.
Diese Lösung, die vom Marktführer im E-Commerce entwickelt wurde, ist Teil einer Strategie, die sich auf die Kaufreise konzentriert, um Wert für Käufer und Marken gleichermaßen zu schaffen. Rakuten France achtet auf die Veränderungen in unserer Gesellschaft, insbesondere durch die starke Digitalisierung der Einkaufs- und Verkaufswege, und bekräftigt einmal mehr seine Mission: sein Know-how in Innovation in den Dienst von Millionen von Käufern und seinen wertvollen Einzelhandelspartnern zu stellen.
https://global.fr.shopping.rakuten.com/actualites/...-rakuten-france/
After shifting of all customers off from free plans, increased ARPU and opex will fall strong, because the build out of network is done, we will see a jump to profitabilty of Rakuten Mobile.
by Wired about 20 hours ago
https://iphonewired.com/news/574719/
Combining General Processing with Acceleration
Intel has announced a new product that combines the processing power of its Xeon Scaler chips with the acceleration capabilities of its FPGA components and combined both into one SoC. Targeted at the 5G and ORAN needs of carriers, this combination has some significant benefits that include:
Reduced power requirements – the amount of electricity needed to run network operations is one of the largest costs involved. It is estimated moving to a more power efficient hardware and software deployment can save 35%-40% of required power, with major implications for sustainability.
Reduction in BOM - enabling smaller, lighter and more cost-effective systems to be built. Lowering complexity of the underlying equipment is a core need to enable both automated, one click deployments as well as reducing the space requirements that enable deployment in many more potential locations, including edge computing.
Better performance - a single SOC can improve the overall platform performance by as much as 2X compared to discrete components, according to Intel, enabling control units to power more radios for a more efficient operating environment.
Called the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor with vRAN boost, it provides up to 2x capacity gains at the same power, about 20% power savings, and is offered as a compact single SoC rather than multiple discrete chips. Its dedicated accelerator includes 5G specific instructions like matrix acceleration. But with many networking functions now relying on AI processes as well, those can be handled by the Xeon processor AI acceleration.
Bottom Line: Intel working closely with Rakuten has created a combination product that should greatly accelerate adoption of vRAN/ORAN technology. While both companies are free to explore partnerships with other companies, it’s likely that this close working relationship will continue and put both Rakuten Symphony and Intel Xeon at the forefront of the move to a fully virtualized carrier environment. We expect Rakuten to create and sell some leading-edge hardware using the Intel tech, and we expect that what Intel learns from this relationship will keep it at the forefront of supplying processors to the 5G and general carrier marketplace, and ahead of its competitors vying for a piece of this growing and attractive market. Such competitors include Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Marvel.
Jack Gold is founder and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, LLC. With more than 45 years of experience in the computer and electronics industries, and as an industry analyst for more than 25 years, he covers the many aspects of business and consumer computing and emerging technologies.
Follow him on Twitter u/jckgld or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jckgld
https://www.fierceelectronics.com/iot-wireless/...-boost-5g-oran-gold
https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/...en-marketing/case-studies
Heading into Q4, things are looking better on the mobile side - per management, sign-ups have been exceeding cancellations in November, possibly implying a turnaround in subscriber additions. Given all customers will also be billed from November, achieving more ARPU gains (vs. disclosed ARPU of JPY2.6k in the mobile business in September) will be key to getting to operating profitability. Also helping margins will be the decline of roaming expenses, base station installation, and related maintenance expenses, as the 4G network rollout concludes in FY23 with ~60k base stations deployed (vs. the current ~50k). Pending better visibility into a mobile turnaround, however, I would be cautious about underwriting a fundamental upturn anytime soon.
Beyond the near-term, Rakuten continues to guide to achieving single-month break-even for the mobile business by end-2023. Meanwhile, operating trends are projected to improve as soon as 1H 2023 on the back of cost reductions and the launch of new enterprise services.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...or_the_mobile_outlook/
By Rakuten Advertising | December 15, 2022
https://blog.rakutenadvertising.com/insights/...023-affiliate-trends/
Due to the recent easing of restrictions on movement, demand for products related to events, outings, and ceremonial occasions is on a recovery trend at the Internet shopping mall “Rakuten Ichiba.” Among items related to ceremonial occasions such as weddings and Shichigosan festivals, sales of wedding dresses increased by about 1.5 times year-on-year, party dresses increased by about 1.3 times, and Japanese clothing increased by about 1.3 times, and the distribution amount is expanding.
In addition, due to the refraining from going out due to the corona sickness, the number of opportunities to wear makeup decreased, but due to the increase in opportunities to go out, the number of “lipsticks / lipsticks” increased by about 1.3% from the same period last year from June to September. The distribution amount of cosmetics has increased by double and about 1.2 times for “foundation”, and it can be seen that this trend is becoming more pronounced.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...its_by_rakuten_ichiba/
When a telco customer purchases a Symworld application, the supporting Symworld Platform is delivered for free and will now include the Juniper Networks RIC.
Telecom nerds are pretty excited about the future potential of the RIC, which will automatically manage much of the intelligence of the RAN in a way that was previously referred to as a self-organizing network (SON).
https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/...ers-ran-intelligent-controller
Micro fashion items are trending. In Rakuten Ichiba, the transaction value of smartphone shoulders and smartphone Due to the spread of cashless payments and fashion trends, the size and contents of bags are changing. On Rakuten Ichiba, the number of smartphone shoulder bags and smartphone pouches that can carry a smartphone and minimum valuables when going out empty-handed is approximately four times that of the same period last year, and the number of micro bags is approximately 2.8 times that of the same period last year and increased the distribution amount. In addition, mini-sized lipsticks, lipsticks, foundations, and eye shadows are on the rise in beauty and cosmetics-related products, and it is expected that more attention will be paid to them in the future.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...ks_and_rakuten_ichiba/
„NEW YORK CITY – OPEN RAN NORTH AMERICA – Mike Murphy, Ericsson's CTO for North America, cited estimates during his presentation here that open RAN (radio access network) technologies will be used in roughly 40% of the world's radio systems by 2030.“
https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/...%2520market%2520in%25202023.
https://www.finanznachrichten.de/...hback-solution-club-r-pay-004.htm