GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release
The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) – have forged closer links with a deal that will see them jointly develop technologies focusing on next-generation networks, device platforms, machine to machine services and the booming apps market. According to a statement from SKT, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between both parties, signed yesterday, focuses on the promotion of “joint research in the advancement of low cost, high efficiency next generation radio access network architecture, such as SCAN(Smart Cloud Access Network) and [the] set up [of] test beds for evaluation”; the upgrade of “device soft