Rakuten: ‘This is the most important industry and it shouldn’t be left to chance’

INTERVIEW: We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony, who explained the dangers of ‘doing the new thing the old way’, his thoughts on OpenRAN, political pressure on telecoms, and more.
There are two parts to Rakuten. Rakuten Mobile is the new kid on the block operator in Japan which uses a software based approach to telecoms infrastructure, a business model which is more or less unique. Though Dish in the US and 1&1 in Germany are now making moves towards that