In 2019, Rakuten installed a multi-vendor RAN, with equipment from Airspan, Altiostar, Mavenir and Nokia, among others, for LTE, and in 2020 it developed its network towards a 5G NR, with NEC radios. Following this milestone of having jointly developed a fully virtualized and native Cloud mobile network, the Japanese firm announced an agreement by which they will develop a Stand Alone network platform and sell it to third parties. Beyond the sound footprint on Open RAN - which already unbalances the status quo of traditional network providers by its own conception - this movement is disruptive because it places Rakuten in a new position in the industry, as a telco and a vendor at the same time, from the hand of its partner NEC.