{"id":655108,"date":"2026-06-24T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655108\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:58:12","slug":"rakuten-to-offer-satellite-to-cell-service-in-japan-with-us-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655108\/","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/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":2,"featured_media":655109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[386,68976,220084,220085,90,5136,416,5219,56,54,55,741],"class_list":["post-655108","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}