Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Symphony UK officially opened the Rakuten Open RAN (O-RAN) customer experience center in the United Kingdom.
The new facility is the result of international cooperation, with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) working with the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and focusing on increasing telecommunications supplier diversity.
The new O-RAN center will serve as a European hub for interoperability testing around the viability of O-RAN in new and existing networks. It will be used to host workshops and events demonstrating how the latest O-RAN hardware and software and next-generation mobile networks will be used to improve operational efficiency and new services.
