Altiostar pointed to the deployment of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) as adding to operational automation, including auto-commissioning cell site integration and fault detection and automated recovery from failures known as self-healing. RELATED: Rakuten Mobile ratchets up wireless price war Rakuten has said it takes just four minutes to provision a new 5G cell site and eight minutes for a 4G cell site. "Rakuten has been a disruptor in the mobile space and our 4G and 5G Open vRAN deployments reflect this strategy," said Tareq Amin, EVP and Chief Technology Officer at Rakuten Mobile, in a statement.