Tokyo: Mavenir, the software company building AI-by-design mobile networks, today announced that its Converged Packet Core is now live in Rakuten Mobile's nationwide mobile network, deployed on Rakuten Cloud Platform. This deployment plays a key role in enabling Rakuten Mobile to provide multi-carrier roaming through 'JAPAN Roaming,' a new nationwide emergency roaming service in Japan launched by Japan's leading mobile carriers on April 1, 2026.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Mavenir's cloud-native packet core provides the scalable, resilient data foundation required for Rakuten Mobile to support cross-carrier access under emergency conditions, demonstrating how cloud-based core networks can strengthen national communications infrastructure and support service continuity at scale.