Tag: KDDI

August 31, 2023

Japanese carrier KDDI and SpaceX announced an agreement to provide satellite-to-cellular service using Starlink’s low earth orbit satellites and KDDI national wireless spectrum nationwide. Starlink is the satellite internet constellation operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In a release, the Japanese […]

June 21, 2023

KDDI Corporation, together with Telehouse, has announced the latest expansion of its global footprint in North America by reaching an agreement with Allied Properties REIT to acquire three data centres and its accompanying assets in Toronto, Canada. This investment of […]

June 8, 2023

DriveNets – a leader in cloud-native networking solutions –announced that Japanese telecommunications provider KDDI has successfully deployed DriveNets Network Cloud as its internet gateway peering router. DriveNets Network Cloud provides carrier-grade peering router connectivity across the KDDI network, enabling KDDI […]

May 11, 2023

KDDI, Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company and Rakuten Mobile announced that the three companies have concluded a new roaming agreement as of April 2023. In order to contribute to the promotion of fair competition among mobile network operators in Japan, KDDI […]

March 27, 2023

NTT and KDDI signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote global standardization in the field of optical networks, such as optical transmission technology, mobile network technology and its operations management technology, where both companies can leverage their technological strengths. For […]

February 21, 2023

Wind River announced that its Wind River Studio is being used by Japanese operator KDDI for its O-RAN­-compliant 5G virtualized base station, which began commercial deployment last month in Osaka, Japan. For its 5G virtualized base station, KDDI uses Wind […]

December 7, 2022

KDDI announced that the first mobile tower in Japan to use Starlink has started commercial operation in Hatsushima, a remote island in Sagami Bay. Starting with this location, KDDI will expand its coverage to 1,200 remote towers in order to […]

August 10, 2022

Right now mmWave 5G deployments are focused on adding capacity to congested network hot zones, places like stadiums, music venues, shopping malls, transit hubs and dense central business or downtown areas. In addition to capacity offload, mmWave 5G promises to […]

March 3, 2022

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that KDDI, a leading Japanese telecommunications provider, is using the HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus – Telco server for the commercial network operation of O-RAN compliant 5G standalone base stations. KDDI is accelerating construction of […]

February 21, 2022

KDDI, Samsung Electronics and Fujitsu announced that the companies have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G Standalone Open RAN site powered by virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. For the deployment of this first site, KDDI used […]

February 18, 2022

KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), the first network site went live […]

October 20, 2021

Japanese operator SoftBank announced that it has started to offer 5G Standalone services in conjunction with the sale of its new 5G-compatible SoftBank Air terminal, called “Air Terminal 5”. With this new launch, SoftBank claims to be the first carrier […]

October 18, 2021

Nokia last week announced that it has been selected by Japanese mobile operators, SoftBank and KDDI as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared RAN. This deployment will deliver 5G services to both SoftBank and KDDI subscribers in the […]

October 14, 2021

Nokia has been selected by Japanese mobile operators SoftBank and KDDI as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared Radio Access Network. The Finnish vendor noted that this deployment will deliver 5G services to both SoftBank and KDDI subscribers […]

September 30, 2021

Samsung is deploying its cloud-native, fully virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for mid-band spectrum in KDDI’s 5G network, following the successful completion of a 5G Standalone (SA) call using Samsung’s vRAN and another vendor’s 5G Massive MIMO radios. “We […]

September 14, 2021

KDDI has selected Starlink to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to KDDI’s 1,200 remote mobile towers as its network backhaul provider. As soon as 2022, KDDI will be able to offer an urban mobile connectivity experience to its rural mobile […]

July 16, 2021

Korean carrier LG Uplus has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese mobile operator KDDI to find new business applications for 5G network technology and strengthen cooperation to pave the way for future 6G technology, Korean news agency Yonhap […]

March 31, 2021

Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has announced it has brought its 700MHz services on air for Japanese carrier KDDI’s commercial launch of 5G. The use of 700 MHz spectrum in this rollout is designed to enhance KDDI’s 5G network coverage, improving […]

March 17, 2021

KDDI, a major Japan-based telecommunications provider has validated IP Infusion’s Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway Solution (DCSG), announced IP Infusion on Tuesday. In a lab trial conducted by KDDI, the DCSG solution successfully completed rigorous Telecom Infra Project (TIP) compliance and […]

March 16, 2021

The Japanese government assigned the three largest mobile operators in Japan — NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank, as well as new arrival Rakuten Mobile — 5G spectrum in April 2019. In the coming years, the four Japanese carriers are […]