The telecoms industry has an innovation problem – Rakuten

A ‘legacy way of thinking’ is stifling innovation in the telcoms industry, and operators will need to adopt new business models in order to not be relegated to utility providers, claims Rakuten.
Rakuten’s OpenRAN-focused venture Symphony gained some attention at Mobile World Congress this week, with a barrage of partnerships and the acquisition of US cloud-native networking specialist Robin.io. We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony in Barcelona, and he h