Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

 

 

https://www.finanznachrichten.de/...in-network-transformation-008.htm
 

Rakuten pitches telcos with FAST channels through Enterprise Services

March 4, 2025

The company is expanding its Enterprise Services division, which includes Content Syndication, Monetisation and FAST Channels & Video App Solutions.

Rakuten TV works with major European telecom operators including Virgin Media O2 (UK), MasOrange (Spain), 1&1 (Germany), and Altibox (Norway), as well as top FAST services including VIDAA, Xiaomi TV+, LG Channels, and Samsung TV Plus.

“We’ve been operating streaming and VOD platform for 15 years now. We’ve done many things. We’ve started with TVOD just in Spain, then we expanded to many countries in Europe six years ago. Then back in late 2019, beginning of 2020, we launched AVOD also we were the first platform launching this free content with ads,” said Cédric Dufour, CEO and President of Rakuten TV in a Broadband TV News interview.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/03/04/...gh-enterprise-services/
 

 

1&1's Open RAN network: all customers to be migrated by the end of the year

1&1 is making progress in building its own mobile network after initial difficulties. According to 1&1, more than half of the company's 12 million customers are now served by the new network, with around 250,000 new and existing customers joining every week. By the end of the year, 1&1 wants to have completed the migration and only work on the Open RAN. Martin continues: "Open RAN has long since left the laboratory environment behind and is, at least for us, the reality."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/...-by-the-end-of-the-year-10302165.html
 

Targeting full-year EBITDA to turn positive in 2025

Rakuten Mobile achieved profitability in the final month of 2024 five years after launch, with chair Mickey Mikitani targeting full-year EBITDA to turn positive in 2025, driven by subscriber and ARPU gains.
The operator’s EBITDA in December hit JPY2.3 billion ($15.1 million). The figure for the full-year dropped by JPY98.7 billion from a year ago to a loss of JPY53.8 billion.

Mikitani attributed the move to profit to strong subscriber acquisition and increased ARPU due to improved network quality, as well as ongoing cost control and rising ad revenue.

https://www.telecomschamber.org/industry-news/...ofitability-in-2025/

 

Why Rakuten Mobile’s network keeps getting better: Vice CTO Takeshita explains

January 8, 2025

https://rakuten.today/blog/...ce-cto-takeshita-explains%EF%BF%BC.html
 

Introducing the New Rakuten Card Sendai Branch Office

March 07, 2025

In September 2024, the Rakuten Card Sendai branch office relocated to accommodate the expansion of the organization. The new office, located just a 6-minute walk from Sendai Station, features approximately 600 workspaces and meeting rooms. The office is also equipped with excellent welfare facilities, including a cafeteria that offers three free meals a day and a study lounge for skill development and reading. The matching original hoodies worn by Rakutenians carry a unique meaning specific to the Sendai office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lv7h0S1Xkc&t=101s
 

 

Scaling a five-nines architecture from RAN to enterprise

March 07, 2025

Telcos have been asking Wind River if they could use their highly reliable RAN software architecture in the enterprise. To make this possible, Wind River is partnering with Rakuten Symphony to enhance the platform for enterprise use, with highly reliable and scalable storage. Here, Rakuten Symphony’s Ani Chakravartii and Wind River’s Darrell Jordan-Smith explain how their joint customers can use the same five-nines architecture from edge to cloud.

Featuring: Anirban Chakravartti, SVP Global Head of Sales (Enterprise), Rakuten Symphony Darrell Jordan-Smith, Chief Revenue Officer, Wind River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YoI1hfxhWs
 

 

 

What are the main challenges of the telco to techco journey?

March 06, 2025

Virtusa’s Niladri Dutta outlines how telcos transition into AI native from cloud native, and the potential for network-as-a-service (NaaS) to act as an accelerator for 5G monetisation.

Featuring: Niladri Dutta, Global Telco Industry Consulting & Solutions Leader, Virtusa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlwCIS2GSOU
 

BARCELONA, Spain/BAAR, Switzerland, 5 March 2025. – GMS is proud to announce a new Platinum Partner status within ‘Rakuten Viber Partner Growth Program’. This marks a significant milestone in GMS's global mission to deliver next-generation communication experiences to brands, built on 10 years of trust and fruitful collaboration with Rakuten Viber.  

This partnership started with introduction of Rakuten Viber products to Ukrainian brands back to 2015. GMS pioneered the use of Viber messaging services for businesses in Ukraine and took it further, helping thousands of companies globally to establish engaging conversations with their clients, expanding reach, building loyalty, and driving growth.  

https://gms.net/news/...cognized-as-platinum-partner-of-rakuten-viber
 

10 March 2025

Shifting to a data-first mindset can unravel operational complexity, as well as unlock new possibilities to implement AI Ops.

https://the-mobile-network.com/2025/03/the-telco-complexity-crisis/

 

 

How Open RAN nearly got *too* open, and how to build the networks of the future.

7 March 2025

https://the-mobile-network.com/2025/03/23287/
 

Odine, a global technology partner in sustainable network and digital transformation, is pleased to announce that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Rakuten Symphony, a global leader in cloud-native Open RAN telco infrastructure, services, and solutions. This strategic collaboration marks a significant step in accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge solutions in Türkiye, Middle East and Africa.

https://odine.com/news-insights/...ovation-in-network-transformation/
 

Copilot, now available on Viber

Copilot can now be directly accessed within the Viber app. Enjoy everything Copilot has to offer from getting answers to asking for advice, generating images and more.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/...0acaa65c8ecd6306

Rakuten Viber, or simply Viber, is a cross-platform voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) software application owned by Japanese multinational company Rakuten.

https://www.bing.com/...;FORM=ANAB01&adppc=EDGEDSP&PC=EDGEDSP
 

 

Rakuten Group quarterly domestic e-commerce GMS 2015-2024

Published by C. Diep, Mar 6, 2025

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the domestic gross transaction value of the Rakuten Group's e-commerce segment amounted to over 1.7 trillion Japanese yen, growing by 9.5 percent compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year. The Japanese online retailing company is headquartered in Tokyo, and operates the online marketplace Rakuten Ichiba.

The company's fiscal year and fourth quarter ended December 31 of the stated year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/223341/...tic-e-commerce-revenue/
 

 

The Shifting Landscape of the RAN Market: Current Trends and Future Outlook

March 4, 2025

https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/...urrent-trends-and-future-outlook
 

For the full year 2024, Rakuten‘s operating income was 52.98 billion yen, a turnaround from a loss of 212.86 billion yen the prior year, beating the estimated loss of 36.64 billion yen.

https://www.smartkarma.com/home/newswire/...timates-despite-net-loss/

If the pace of the growth of the operating income will be 212.86 billion in 2025 too, the net income will reach 52.98 billion yen + 212.86 billion = 267.84 billion yen = about $ 1.8 billion = by about 2.15 billion shares = about $ 0.84/share.