Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani attends the Rakuren Expo 2022 at Grand Prince Hotel Shintakanawa on July 21, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Rakuten and German telco 1&1 on Friday launched a mobile network based on a new type of architecture as the Japanese giant looks to boost its loss-making mobile division amid mounting debts.
The two companies said that it is Europe’s first “first fully virtualized 5G network based on…