Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket
Published by C. Diep, Aug 10, 2023
Rakuten Group generated around 181 billion Japanese yen in revenue through its fintech business segment in the second quarter of 2023, up by more than 13 percent compared to the second quarter of the previous year. Rakuten offers services such as Rakuten Card, Rakuten Bank, and Rakuten Securities. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, where it was founded in 1997.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/223360/...internet-finance-sales/
181 billion Japanese yen = $1.24 billion in a quarter or about $5 billion in the year
Let me report on the progress that we made so far. So as I have and have been described last September in a single month, the monthly cost was maximum. It was JPY39 billion, and it has been reduced or it will be reduced by JPY15 billion. So various, of course programs initiatives are implemented. The roaming, of course, cost is one thing. But of course, opening a base station and the construction costs in terms of the outsourcing logistics and human personnel costs, these details. accumulating these areas, we are already underway to reduce the cost. And on top of the customer acquisition cost, we have been reserved utilizing TV commercial and also unperforming shops have been closed. So by doing so, at this time, we are strengthening our cost reduction effort and already this year.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/...-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript
https://www.inside-digital.de/ratgeber/...oaming-bestandskundenplaene
In Q4 2022, FinTech companies in the SEG Index recorded a median EV/Revenue multiple of 5.4x, less than half compared to pre-pandemic levels.
26 January 2023
https://finerva.com/report/...20with%2520a%2520greater%2520magnitude.
As you can see, JPY23 billion to JPY25 billion per month is the world is what we can be able to achieve. This is feasible. So reducing the cost, at the same time, increasing the number of the subscription and ARPU, so we will be able to achieve breaking even point as quickly as possible.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/...-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript
August 14, 2023 6:45 PM
Open RAN and network virtualization are transformative technologies that are revolutionizing the mobile network industry. The emergence of the Open RAN movement has gained significant momentum. Over the past three years, the industry has seen a remarkable shift in the adoption of these technologies.
This report provides an in-depth analysis that delves into the intricacies of the two technologies' adoption in the market:
What is Open RAN and network virtualization? How have these technologies evolved?
What is the relationship between Open RAN and network virtualization? What is Open vRAN?
How are greenfield operators and brownfield operators adopting these technologies?
What are the market forecasts for the Open RAN market in 2028?
4. MNO perspectives
4.1. Greenfield operators' Open RAN and network virtualization strategies
4.2. Brownfield operators' Open RAN and network virtualization strategies
4.3. Deutsche Telekom
4.4. DISH Wireless
4.5. NTT Docomo
4.6. Orange
4.7. Rakuten Mobile
4.8. Telefonica
4.9. Vodafone
5. Open RAN market size
5.1 Market sizing - Open RAN market 2022-2028
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/08/...-deutsche-telekom-dis
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Tue, August 15, 2023
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...twork-virtualization-224500870.html
So in near future, probably in 1 or 2 weeks, so 5 million subscriber would be possible to achieve. We are quite near to that. And another highlight here is the Rakuten Group, more than – we have more than 900,000 clients and how to empower those clients were the Ichiba business and the travel or the advertisement revenue and then we have been contributing using those powers and to the other clients low price and easy to use and the corporate agreement, we want to sell this B2B, the contract, and we are targeting B2B subscription target 1 million by the end of this year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...subscription_target_1/
17 August 2023
„Laut dem von Polaris Market Research veröffentlichten Forschungsbericht wurde der globale Markt für 5G-Dienste im Jahr 2021 auf 54,60 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt und wird bis 2030 voraussichtlich 480,90 Milliarden US-Dollar erreichen, was einem jährlichen Wachstum von 30,0 % im Prognosezeitraum entspricht.“
Hauptakteure:
AT&T
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
BT Group plc
China Mobile Ltd.
China Telecom Corporation Ltd.
Deutsche Telekom AG
KT Corp.
NTT Docomo
Rakuten Mobile Inc.
Saudi Telecom Company
SK Telecom Co. Ltd.
Sprint Corporation
Telecom Italia
Telstra
T-Mobile USA Inc.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Vodafone Group
https://ekz-crosstour.ch/news/...ichtsumfang-region-2023-2032/136095/
Selected and analyzed: DataCore, Red Hat, IBM, Diamanti, Suse, Portworx and Rakuten Symphony (Robin.io)
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on August 16, 2023 at 2:02 pm
https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/16/...based-applications-2/
JAMES BARTON
11 AUGUST 2023
Brazilian regulator Anatel has signed an agreement with the Japanese government focused on open RAN, with the goal of increasing deployments of the technology in Brazil and developing new business opportunities between the countries.
The deal will see the partners share knowledge relating to open RAN such as spectrum policies, carry out tests, and collaborate with other countries. Anatel chief Carlos Baigorri described open RAN as an “opportunity for Brazilian industry” as the increased range of suppliers and disaggregation of network equipment would make the market more competitive.
https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/...on-open-ran.html
I have been part of RMIC since inception. I was deeply involved in all the acquisitions and the formation of Symphony. And of course, as RMIC, I have been the biggest customer for Symphony and very much familiar with all the product line. Now, with this new position in Symphony, I would hope to bring the end-to-end delivery and operations experience to play, which will actually benefit our end customer and indirectly will help us to increase the revenue.
We have closed quarter of strong progress in both product development and customer acquisition across all business segments. Some of our key highlights for the past quarter include, on the cloud side, strong traction in channel partner sales for both SIM cloud storage and SIM cloud platform products. Among others, we secured a deal with the digital media company in U.S., successfully deploying SIM cloud storage in many states there. In addition, we closed the global deal with a private 5G channel partner for which we will be providing the underlying cloud platform.
On the RAN side, the major focus has been maturing the product to make it brownfield in [Technical Difficulty] to cater more than thousands of new requirements for brownfield operations. And in this quarter, most of it has been achieved. And in next quarter, we will be doing the trial with one of the Tier 1 operators.
On the OSS/BSS BU side, we have successfully expanded our footprint of our site manager in U.S., and now we have more than 3,000 monthly active users, which we plan to increase to 6,000 in the coming quarter.
On the Internet services, we have been finalizing our key B2B contracts with prominent B-sellers in both Japan and Korea for Rakuten Drive. And regarding Z-pass [ph], we have added a significant number of partners and customers to grow our ARR to 3.2 million in the past quarter.
We are working to get our ORAN software ready to concur the massive global brownfield opportunity. Our proven ORAN maturity in both 4G and 5G is based on more than 25 global successful global POCs and field trials. Alongside, large-scale commercial deployments, of course in Rakuten Mobile and 1&1 in Germany. Today, Rakuten Symphony is the leading provider of ORAN software to cater to the complex requirements of large brownfield environments. Our strategy to conquer the brownfield space is based on two phases. First, to reach future parity, which I said we are almost there, and the commercial deployment of ORAN with one Tier 1 operator. And then after that, we will scale it for ORAN global footprint by engaging for the brownfield opportunities.
In Q2, we could achieve $72 million, mainly driven by delivery with our existing global customers. Y-o-Y, this represents a decrease of 18.5%, mainly due to the seasonality and lumpy nature of large B2B revenues. We expect a significant revenue increase in the next two quarters along with delivery of major milestones with our anchor customers. Our key financial goal remains to achieve profitability.
Last week we were in Rakuten Optimism, we announced that we have signed a memorandum of understanding with VEON. We will start exploring cooperation in the Ukraine with the goal of accelerating the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure through collaboration on open radio access network and digital services.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...bout_rakuten_symphony/
And the other factor is the overall domestic EC business, where are we against the other competitors. So, as you can see here, the other competitors are only growing by one digit. And at the same timing, we were able to grow 12.3%, a very robust growth having attained by us. And at the same time, in areas of fashion compared to ZOZO, the size is 2.5-fold, inclusive of merchant, Rakuten Fashion inclusive of that is 2.5-fold growth greater, and JPY1.1 trillion, we will soon be able to achieve. In other words, on this side still, we are growing by 9% year-on-year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RakutenUndervalued/...mestic_ec_business_of/
13 hours ago
It’s official: Rakuten Mobile’s network experience now surpasses its main competitors in a number of key areas – and it’s not far behind by several other important measures of high-quality telecom services.
Rakuten Mobile is showing “clear signs” of improvements in its network experience, now providing Japan’s best Upload Experience and 5G Upload Speed¹ – it also isn’t far behind in 5G Games Experience and 5G Video Experience, according to a report from global analytics firm Opensignal.
Opensignal compared the quality of Rakuten Mobile’s network with its three rival mobile carriers in Japan – NTT Docomo, KDDI au and SoftBank. Its research sheds light on how Rakuten Mobile’s network experience has changed since launching, how widely its network is available and how Rakuten Mobile matches up next to the country’s incumbent operators.
https://rakuten.today/blog/...intensifies-competition-with-japan.html
August 2023
https://www.rakuten-bank.co.jp/press/2023/230818.html
18 hours ago
Affiliate marketing has long existed in its own strange silo.
It can’t be targeted to specific users and it’s hard to sell on a CPM basis, meaning programmatic isn’t a good fit.
But increasingly, the marketers who control affiliate investing are also buying CTV, social media, and search. And “they’re used to identifying and acquiring the publisher’s audience,” said Anthony Capano, Rakuten Advertising’s general manager for North America.
On Tuesday, Rakuten Advertising announced the launch of Audience Engine, an optimization product that treats affiliate more like search and social media. In other words, addressable partner.
With Audience Engine, Rakuten Advertising enters a new world of first-party publisher data and embracing online shopping trends.
In practice, Capano said, advertisers can set their hiring rates and commission structures for specific audience goals or types of audience segments.
Another benefit to advertisers is that while advertising with Amazon or Walmart drives sales to Amazon or Walmart, the affiliate channel sends people back to the buyer’s own site.
Rakuten and the publishers in the Audience Engine program will drive traffic – and valuable first-hand customer data – back to the brand.
“One great thing about the affiliate industry is that it is the only transparent channel and therefore low risk,” said Capano.
The product requires advertisers to upload their data to Rakuten Advertising. But Rakuten also needs publishers to bring their data server-side so that it can be compared with advertiser data and Rakuten data in a privacy-compliant manner.
Audience Engine public launch partners include Dealmoon, Slickdeals, and 55Haitao. Dealmoon and 55Haitao are both Chinese online discount and cashback sites. Slickdeals is the same, but based in Las Vegas.
All three publishers have pre-existing deals with Rakuten Advertising.
https://affbeast.wiki/...on-of-first-party-data-tech-from-publishers/
Rakuten Mobile stated roaming costs will increase slightly compared with its original capex plan, but overall expenses will decrease, with no change in its cost reduction target of JPY15 billion a month.
Mikitani added roaming costs will drop steadily going forward.
https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/...hes-capex-budget/
August 15, 2023
Collaboration to deliver innovative 5G solutions for advanced connectivity in the enterprise sector
Bray, Ireland, August 15, 2023 - Druid Software, an industry-leading provider of enterprise-focused Private Cellular Network software, announced today that Druid’s Private 5G Core platform, Raemis, has been successfully tested and validated on Rakuten Symphony’s Symcloud Platform, ensuring seamless compatibility and optimal performance. The successful deployment validation also opens future collaboration opportunities to deliver innovative and robust solutions to meet the growing demand for advanced connectivity in the enterprise sector.
Revolutionizing connectivity through containerization
One of the highlights of this collaboration is the 100% containerized nature of the platform deployment. Containerization offers an accelerated, flexible and scalable approach to deploying workloads on the underlying cloud-native infrastructure of Symcloud. This enables end-customers to experience unparalleled ease of deployment, reducing time to market and maximising operational efficiency.
“Our collaboration with Rakuten Symphony represents a significant step towards empowering enterprises with robust and reliable 5G solutions,” said Liam Kenny, CEO of Druid Software. “Together, we are poised to revolutionize connectivity, enhance operational efficiency, and drive digital transformation across various industries.”
Partha Seetala, President, Cloud BU of Rakuten Symphony, commented: “We’re thrilled to work with Druid and combine our expertise in 5G, edge, and hyper-converged cloud-native technologies to deliver unparalleled value to our enterprise customers.”
The engineering and customer success teams of Druid Software and Rakuten Symphony are committed to delivering ongoing support and pre-validated releases, ensuring solutions are up-to-date and aligned with the evolving needs of global telco and enterprise customers seeking reliable and future-proof enterprise 5G solutions.
Rakuten Symphony Symcloud offers a highly differentiated and comprehensive product portfolio.
About Rakuten Symphony:
Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry’s pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security. Rakuten Symphony has headquarters in Japan and local presence in the United States, Singapore, India, Europe and the Middle East Africa region.
About Druid Software:
Druid Software is a core cellular network software company based in Ireland. Established in 2000 Druid has evolved into one of the world's leaders in Private 5G & 4G Cellular technology over the last 23 years. Druid’s Raemis platform is a mature 3GPP compliant 5G & 4G core network, with unique features designed specifically for business and mission-critical use.
CSPs and Enterprises worldwide rely on Druid's Raemi platform to support mission-critical operations in diverse environments.
Druid's technology enables solutions in different areas including Enterprise Communications, IoT, Mobile Edge Computing, Neutral Host, and Public Safety.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/newsroom/...ymphony-symcloud-tm-platform
By Partha Seetala President, Cloud Business Unit Rakuten Symphony
August 18, 2023
I have talked about “distributed stateful edge” to describe what I think is the next big breakthrough in edge computing use cases. And, thanks to a partnership between Rakuten Symphony and Google Cloud, customers now have a cloud-native platform that can support stateful applications, such as those that depend on databases, message queues and AI/ML pipelines.
A breakthrough in the distributed stateful edge
Working as partners, Rakuten Symphony Symcloud (formerly Robin.io) and Google Cloud have made a breakthrough in the distributed stateful edge by delivering a cloud-native platform that includes persistent storage needed to support stateful applications.
This partnership with Google Cloud enables a revolution in how cloud computing is carried out at the edge. Many large retailers and organizations with large branch office operations have spent the last decade converting their branch office applications to the cloud, however, the need for edge computing is becoming more relevant as instantaneous decisions need to be taken based on location, footprint, etc. The Symcloud and Google Cloud solution offers edge computing capabilities to meet the desired outcome. Consolidation of multiple legacy applications is happening, and Google Distributed Cloud Edge (GDC Edge) will have the (Anthos) Kubernetes platform to run these workloads and Symcloud software will be the underlying storage.
Now they can bring those cloud applications closer to their stores where they serve customers, keeping all the benefits of cloud-native applications without the cost of cloud services and the latency involved with transporting data to cloud data centers.
This solution will also help other companies that have built out their stateful edge networks using bare metal servers and are looking for a container-based solution that can deliver the zero-touch management and automation functionality that comes with cloud native servers.
In a two-year development project, Rakuten Symphony and Google Cloud have integrated the Symcloud Storage software-defined storage [SDS] platform into the Google GDC Edge to deliver the first cloud native container platform with persistent storage. We not only wanted our Symcloud SDS functionality to work in the Google GDC Edge environment, we wanted it to look and act like it is part of GDC Edge stack and scale.
Symcloud Storage for Kubernetes
Symcloud Storage is part of the Rakuten Symphony Symcloud product family and is a persistent storage offering for Kubernetes that is easy to deploy and manage at scale. Symcloud Storage creates an application-aware storage and data management stack. It is designed to provide grouping of storage volumes and applications into a single logical entity.
Symcloud Storage supports data persistency for stateful apps, always-on availability with self-healing, and advanced data placement for stateful apps. For ongoing data management, users have access to data snapshots, clones, back-ups, business continuity features, multi-cloud portability and other services.
Google Distributed Cloud Edge container orchestration
Google Distributed Cloud Edge is an end to end (HW and SW) container orchestration and management service for Kubernetes container-based deployments. GDC Edge allows organizations to run modern apps consistently at scale.
The platform is designed to modernize on-premises and edge infrastructure by managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and workloads running on virtual machines across environments for a consistent managed Kubernetes experience.
The platform simplifies the application stack, reduces the costs associated with licensing a hypervisor, and decreases time spent learning new skills.
Tight integration for simplicity and scalability
With this partnership, Rakuten Symphony continues to establish its role as an important, persistent storage component for GDC Edge deployments.
Symcloud Storage is tightly integrated with GDC Edge – to the extent that both products feel and operate like one piece of software. This makes it easy to deploy the platform and to scale it. Installation and upgrading processes are validated by Google Cloud.
The solution is pre-engineered, pre-validated and is sold through Google Cloud Marketplace as a single, integrated product. We have a joint team from both companies that are working closely on developing next-generation features so that they too will feel integrated and whole.
Support for Google Cloud AI
An advantage of this solution is that Google Distributed Cloud Edge supports artificial intelligence (AI) to provide applications with advanced capabilities such as predicting sales or operations, allowing for more precise inventory management to reduce waste, optimizing staffing and others. Retail stores can also use AI to display promotions customized to a customer’s demographics. Enterprises can also use this solution for building private cellular networks or providing the compute needed for autonomous inventory systems or other manufacturing digital optimizations.
Conclusion
Since our announcement, we’ve had a lot of conversations with customers who now have new ideas about how they can build a stateful edge applications. One major theme for retailers is leveraging the powerful onsite server to provide personalized customer experiences.
We’ll be demonstrating this solution at Google Cloud Next '23 conference from August 29-31 in San Francisco. I am looking forward to the new conversations that will be initiated by our presence at that show and invite you to visit us.
https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...lications-to-run-on-edge-servers