TOKYO, JAPAN, October 15, 2025 – Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced it has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the organization driving for telecom industry change. Rakuten Symphony joins TIP at a pivotal moment for the organization, where an expanding and influential TIP board is reigniting its mission to deliver high-quality connectivity with faster times to market, at a fraction of the cost, and with greater supplier resiliency and optionality.
Founded in 2016, TIP is a global engineering-focused initiative that brings together operators, suppliers, developers, integrators, and startups to change how we build and operate networks using the latest software and technology approaches.
“We’re excited for Rakuten Symphony to join TIP as the organization and its board of directors recommit to goals we are similarly pursuing, that the telecom industry needs to deliver better connectivity at lower costs with a much broader ecosystem of suppliers than what is available today,” said Vivek Murthy, President, OSS at Rakuten Symphony. “Our immediate engagement with TIP begins in data observability, data management, and service assurance. The more we can align between existing and new best practices, the less the friction of change and solution fragmentation that appears later.”
“Rakuten Mobile has proven itself as a pioneering telecom operator in Japan, and Rakuten Symphony brings that deep expertise with proven solutions to the telecom landscape. We are truly excited to welcome them to the TIP community,” said Kristian Toivo, Executive Director at the Telecom Infra Project. “With proven experience in telecom data-driven, cloud-native and AI-first solutions, Rakuten Symphony will strengthen TIP’s collaborative efforts to accelerate innovation, validate new technologies, and drive commercial readiness across the telecom industry.”
About the Telecom Infra Project
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a global community of companies and organizations that are driving infrastructure solutions to advance global connectivity. A lack of flexibility in the current solutions – exacerbated by a limited choice in technology providers – makes it challenging for operators to efficiently build and upgrade networks. Founded in 2016, TIP is a community of diverse participants that includes hundreds of companies – from service providers and technology partners to systems integrators and other connectivity stakeholders. We are working together to develop, test and deploy open, disaggregated, and standards-based solutions that deliver the high-quality connectivity that the world needs – now and in the decades to come. Find out more: www.telecominfraproject.com
About Rakuten Symphony
Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry’s pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security. Rakuten Symphony has operations in Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, South Korea, Europe and the Middle East Africa region.
For more information about Rakuten Symphony’s offerings, visit: https://symphony.rakuten.com
