Japanese telecom company Rakuten Mobile observes opportunity in India
By MYBRANDBOOK
Rakuten Mobile is betting big on India in the field of IT service and telecom hardware for both its telecom network in Japan and Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP).
Chief Technology Officer of Rakuten, Tareq Amin said that the company looks forward to make India a “hub for engineering” and it will be working towards growing enabling the IT and telecom ecosystems.
“If it grows, then I have another supply chain that I can go to and we feel comfortable about,” Amin was quoted as saying by a news source. “I am personally motivated quite a bit to make India a hub for a lot of the engineering we do.”
He also said that the company will enter into big partnerships with Indian IT companies and system integrators for its RCP.
In India, the company is already working with Tech Mahindra and telecom equipment maker Sterlite Technologies. Tech Mahindra is helping Rakuten with its RCP and Sterlite is providing it with Wi-Fi 6 hardware.
“We have a great story in the making of collaboration between Rakuten and the right Indian partners that are really willing and one team to embrace and build indigenous technology in India and create a win-win model for us as Rakuten then and for future business partners in India,” he told the publication.
With few large Indian System Integrators, the company is trying its hand in different business models for its RCP.
The Japanese company already has its offices in India for engineering.
“We have huge investments that we’re doing in India, we have very large offices in India, we continue to grow there,” Amin said, adding that Rakuten’s portfolio company Altiostar also has its engineering team in Bangalore, India.
Both Rakuten and Tech Mahindra have stakes in Altiostar.
CTO also believes that the 5G technology will help the company to associate with Reliance Jio as the latter is developing its own 5G products and solutions. “I always believe competition is a very healthy thing for everybody. But I also believe collaboration is very much possible,” he added.
RCP, as per the company, combines the technology blueprint and expert playbook of its work to date in building its cloud-native mobile network. Through the platform, Rakuten Mobile is selling the components of the network and deployment know-how to governments and operators through an “app store”.
He makes it clear that Rakuten Mobile is not a system integrator for telecom operators when it offers RCP to them for network transformation. “What AWS did for the IT industry, we would love to do for the telco industry. My approach has been not just to go and incubate technologies by ourselves and create a black box but to work with partners as well,” he was quoted as saying.
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