{"id":888900,"date":"2026-06-24T06:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:48:27","slug":"rakuten-to-offer-satellite-to-cell-service-in-japan-with-us-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888900\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten to offer satellite-to-cell service in Japan with US startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">AST SpaceMobile tie-up comes as rivals offer similar service using SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/0.png\" alt=\"20260623N Rakuten\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Rakuten Group CEO Mikitani answers questions in an online interview with Nikkei.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Rakuten Group will form a satellite business joint venture in Japan with U.S.-based AST SpaceMobile this year, with the new company purchasing and operating satellites and using them to provide direct-to-mobile communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication AST SpaceMobile tie-up comes as rivals offer similar service using SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink Rakuten Group CEO Mikitani answers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":888901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[24],"tags":[170,19832,82684,360473,159,6228,783,819,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-888900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-japan","tag-offer","tag-rakuten","tag-satellite-to-cell","tag-science","tag-service","tag-space","tag-startup","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116803753182929382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}