Rakuten Meets With Simington on ORAN Platform

Rakuten representatives argued for its open radio access network technology, in a meeting with FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 20-32. U.S. wireless carriers can deploy a cloud-native network running on the Rakuten platform "at lower cost, higher security, and more quickly than traditional wireless appliances in order to close the digital divide in rural areas,” the filing said. Former NTIA Administrator David Redl, now at Salt Point Strategies, was at the meeting for Rakuten.