Rakuten Mobile

aid: rakuten-mobile
name: Rakuten Mobile
description: Rakuten Mobile is the Japanese mobile network operator (MNO) of Rakuten Group, headquartered in Setagaya, Tokyo,
  and Japan's fourth nationwide carrier alongside NTT Docomo, KDDI, and SoftBank. Commercially launched in April 2020 and
  surpassing 10 million subscribers in December 2025, Rakuten Mobile built and operates the world's first fully cloud-native,
  end-to-end virtualized mobile network on Open RAN, with 4G population coverage of 99.9% and expanding 5G plus 700 MHz Platinum
  Band rollout. The same engineering effort spun out into Rakuten Symphony, a B2B business that productizes the Rakuten Mobile
  playbook as the Symworld platform — a cloud-native operating platform for telcos covering Open RAN (CU/DU/RIC, Symware distributed
  unit appliance), Symworld Cloud (Kubernetes-based hyperconverged telco cloud / CNP), OSS/BSS, site management, and a marketplace
  of pre-integrated cloud-native network functions from 50+ vendor partners. Symphony also offers Rakuten CPaaS (carrier-grade
  SMS, Confirm/OTP, and Short URL APIs running on the Rakuten Mobile network with JWT-authenticated REST endpoints at api.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net)
  and Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) for enterprise private 5G. Public, developer-accessible APIs are concentrated
  in the CPaaS suite; the Symworld platform APIs themselves are TM Forum-aligned but exposed under commercial engagement rather
  than a public developer signup.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- Mobile Network Operator
- Carrier
- 5G
- 4G LTE
- Open RAN
- Cloud Native
- Symworld
- Symphony
- CPaaS
- SMS
- OTP
- Short URL
- Messaging
- OSS
- BSS
- RIC
- Kubernetes
- Edge
- Private 5G
- Japan
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rakuten-mobile/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: rakuten-mobile:rakuten-cpaas-sms-api
  name: Rakuten CPaaS SMS / Messaging API
  tags:
  - SMS
  - Messaging
  - CPaaS
  - A2P
  - P2A
  - Delivery Receipts
  humanURL: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/sms-api/
  baseURL: https://api.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/sms/v1
  description: Carrier-grade SMS API for sending and receiving A2P and P2A SMS at scale on the Rakuten Mobile network, with
    delivery receipts pushed to caller-configured webhooks. UTF-8 encoded, JWT-authenticated REST endpoints (HTTP variant)
    alongside an SMPP variant for bulk MNO interconnect. Sender addresses must be pre-registered with operators. Used by enterprises
    for OTP delivery, transactional alerts, and marketing campaigns through the Rakuten CPaaS dashboard.
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/sms-api/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/sms-api/http-api/sending_sms
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en/sms
    type: ProductPage
  - url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en/sms/feature
    type: Features
  - url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en/sms/faq-en/what-is-the-connection-method-to-the-api
    type: FAQ
- aid: rakuten-mobile:rakuten-cpaas-confirm-api
  name: Rakuten CPaaS Confirm (OTP) API
  tags:
  - OTP
  - 2FA
  - Authentication
  - Confirm
  - CPaaS
  - Voice
  humanURL: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/confirm-api/
  baseURL: https://api.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net
  description: One-time PIN delivery and verification API for two-factor authentication and transaction confirmation, with
    SMS and Voice channel support, lifecycle operations for request / validate / resend / cancel, JWT bearer authentication,
    and standard JSON payloads over HTTPS. Built for fraud-sensitive enterprise flows requiring carrier-grade reach and audit
    trails.
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/confirm-api/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en
    type: ProductPage
- aid: rakuten-mobile:rakuten-cpaas-shorturl-api
  name: Rakuten CPaaS Short URL API
  tags:
  - Short URL
  - Tracking
  - Campaigns
  - CPaaS
  humanURL: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/shorturl-api/
  baseURL: https://api.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net
  description: Link shortening and analytics API for CPaaS campaigns. Supports create / retrieve / update / list / delete
    operations on short URLs, with JWT bearer authentication, UTC timestamps, JSON over HTTPS, and click-tracking telemetry
    that feeds the CPaaS dashboard's campaign analytics views.
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/getting-started/shorturl-api/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en
    type: ProductPage
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://network.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/
- type: Website
  url: https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/
- type: Symphony
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/
- type: SymworldPlatform
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/symworld/a-new-kind-of-operating-platform
- type: OpenRAN
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/open-ran
- type: Cloud
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cloud
- type: OSS
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/oss
- type: SiteManagement
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/site-management
- type: CPaaS
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/cpaas/en
- type: DeveloperDocs
  url: https://docs.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.cpaas.symphony.rakuten.net/
- type: Symworld
  url: https://symworld.rakuten.com/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/newsroom
- type: Blog
  url: https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://global.rakuten.com/corp/
- type: GroupNewsroom
  url: https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rakuten-mobile/
- type: LinkedInSymphony
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rakuten-symphony/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@RakutenMobile
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/RakutenMobile_R
- type: TwitterSymphony
  url: https://twitter.com/RakutenSymphony
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com