Some Pictures of Macrocells (and Small Cells) from Rakuten, Japan

If you have been following the Japanese operator Rakuten's progress, you will already know that they use variety of radio hardware vendors. Some of these we have covered in this blog. For example, Airspan's macros and small cells that I blogged here is used in quite a few locations. Similarly, I blogged about NEC O-RAN radios here that are being used in the live network too.

Here are some pictures from Twitter.

Rakuten mobile base station in Akiba (source)

Rakuten Mobile 5G base station, Komazawa Dori from Kanhachi (source)

Rakuten Mobile's 5G n77 base station. (source)

Indoor Rakuten mobile base station at the Haneda Airport International Terminal (source)

Antenna for high-rise buildings (source)

NEC on Rakuten Mobile 5G (source)

楽天モバイル5G(n257)の電柱基地局
どれも同じ見た目なので何局かだけ写真あげときますね pic.twitter.com/ZBd61jcqZo

— 電波やくざ🌕関東電測組 (@denpa893) June 21, 2020

Airspan Air5G RDU 46, 28GHz (n257) (source)

You can't have a post on base stations without a speed test, so here we go

Speedtest on Rakuten 4G network (source)

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• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: Airspan Small Cells and Macrocells Portfolio, including 5G
• Operator Watch Blog: Rakuten details its Open RAN and Innovation Journey
• Operator Watch Blog: Japan allocates 5G Spectrum in 3.7GHz, 4.5GHz and 28GHz bands
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: Rakuten details how Cloud will make Telecommunications Industry Irrelevant
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: Drones for Tower Inspections and Optimization