Rakuten

Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

​Today, Rakuten announced that has acquired the rest of Open RAN startup, Altiostar.  It already owned 67% of the pioneering vendor, and paid another $370 million to acquire the rest, at a valuation just over $1 billion.  The company is adding Altiostar to its Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) capabilities now… Read More »Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

The Party-Crashers of MWC21

This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present.  The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia.  These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »The Party-Crashers of MWC21