19 | Rakuten Mobile launches its greenfield network in Japan (簡訳:楽天モバイル、日本でグリーンフィールドネットワークを開始) | ----------- | |
FierceWireless: Wireless | 2020-04-09 02:00 | ????0? | |
For a few weeks, the company has been offering a pre-launch unlimited plan for about $28 per month. This includes unlimited data within its own network areas as well as roaming on partner networks with partner roaming data capped at 2GB per month. But today, Rakuten Mobile increased the partner roaming data cap to 5GB per month in light of the coronavirus crisis. The company said it wants to help customers as they are forced to work and learn from home. After customers exhaust their 5GB of roaming data, then Rakuten has increased the maximum data transmission speed in these partner areas from 128 Kbps to 1 Mbps. Rakuten Mobile worked with a slew vendors to build its network. Amin told FierceWireless recently that Rakuten oversaw all of the network software itself and acted as its own systems integrator. “We only do operation support contracts,” he said. “We are in control of our own destiny.” In order to be in control, Amin said, “I was personally micromanaging to a level of detail because I knew if we didn’t act as the systems integrator we would never accomplish such a thing. We had to make sure all these vendors, who are competitors, we had to convince them to collaborate and work together, do the integration in our labs.”It was the little things that caused some of the biggest headaches. For instance, working with the new BSS/OSS system for policy and charging was a challenge. Amin said the company is planning to acquire a start-up BSS/OSS company that it worked with on the project, and it will be announcing that company’s name in the next couple of weeks. -- ???????? | |||
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