Rakuten reports improving mobile metrics, but Symphony slides

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten’s mobile operation is slowly heading in the right direction, but the same can’t be said for its network solutions arm.
Rakuten Symphony has attracted close scrutiny following the surprise departure on Monday of its CEO and general Open RAN evangelist Tareq Amin, which has left people wondering whether all is well at the unit.
The second quarter financial report published by Rakuten on Thursday showed that Symphony turned over $72 million in the three