Rakuten Symphony will provide O-RAN equipment and collaborate with ecosystem partners for deployment and technical support

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Vietnam joins Open RAN pioneers – Rakuten Symphony and MobiFone sign MoU to pilot 4G/5G Open RAN in Vietnam, placing the country among the first in Southeast Asia to trial the tech.

Network autonomy – MobiFone sees Open RAN as central to its 2030 goal of becoming a digital leader and gaining greater technological independence.

Japan’s O-RAN lessons guide rollout – Rakuten will leverage experience from Japan’s O-RAN deployments and NEDO-backed 5G infrastructure R&D for the Vietnam trial.

Japanese company Rakuten Symphony and Vietnamese mobile operator MobiFone Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collab

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