• Wants India To Develop Telecom Supply Chain

Japanese telecom operator Rakuten Mobile said that there could be a possibility of technical collaboration with Reliance Jio for the development of network technologies in the 5G domain. The telecom operator also wants to work with Indian telecom and IT service providers to develop a complete supply chain for Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), which it wants to offer to global telecom operators, including Indian telecom operators.

“I find similarities between both the organizations [RIL and Rakuten] in many different ways…both have charismatic chairmans and their hunger and vision for what they want to do not just locally and globally is unbelievable. They share similar beliefs…I always believe competition is a very healthy thing for everybody. But I also believe collaboration is very much possible,” Rakuten Mobile chief technology officer Tareq Amin told ET in an interaction.

Rakuten has developed its own platform, Rakuten Cloud Platform (RCP), which is essentially packaging its mobile network strategy into a product, which is a “containerised, cloud platform” for 4G and 5G networks. The RCP comprises around 71 platforms through partners.