Rakuten Execs Meet With FCC's Starks on Cloud-Native Networks

Rakuten Group CEO Hiroshi Mikitani and top executives from Rakuten Mobile met with FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks on the role the company’s technology can play in “accelerating the deployment of secure, next-generation wireless networks” across the U.S. “American wireless carriers can deploy a cloud-native network running on the Rakuten Communications Platform at lower cost, higher security, and more quickly than traditional wireless appliances,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-63.