Rakuten Mobile links network autonomy work to 26-year-old research

Rakuten Mobile said its current network autonomy work traces back to academic research conducted 26 years ago by Petit Nahi, a senior member of the technical staff in the operator’s CTO Office. The company said it is beginning to see what full network autonomy looks like, with energy savings cited as an early result.

The source does not provide specific energy-saving figures, deployment dates, or named products tied to the autonomy work. It identifies Petit Nahi as the researcher whose earlier academic work contributed to Rakuten Mobile’s present approach to autonomous network operations.

Autonomous network operations are part of a wider telecom industry push to automate network management and reduce operating costs. In the eSIM and mobile connectivity sector, this trend sits alongside work on remote SIM provisioning, where RSP (remote SIM provisioning) lets operators manage SIM profiles over the air, and eUICC (embedded universal integrated circuit card) technology stores and manages those profiles in devices.