LG Electronics said the recent test was carried out in partnership with Korean operator LG U+ in Seoul
Korean tech company LG Electronics announced a successful wireless transmission and reception of terahertz (THz) data over 500 meters, which it claimed is the longest distance recorded...
2021 is the year when 5G continues to progress while both infrastructure and device ecosystems have matured, creating economies of scale. In the infrastructure market, vendors have shipped more than 1 million 5G base stations while the device ecosystem has matured enough to include...
A closer look at some more recent advances in blockchain adoption made by CSPs
Blockchain, a technology that establishes a shared, immutable record of transactions within a network, has been on the radar of communication service providers (CSPs) for some time now, and according to...
AI One Team focused on collaborative R&D activities
Korean companies LG Electronics and LG U+ have joined the AI One Team, an industry-academic consultative body formed by compatriot companies with the aim of developing artificial intelligence in the Asian country.
This week, Koran telecommunications operator KT...
South Korea was the first country to commercially launch a nationwide 5G network in April 2019, a feat made possible when all three of the mobile network operators in the country simultaneously switched on 5G. As we approach the first anniversary of that milestone...
The three Korean telcos previously agreed to launch 5G services in March 2019
South Korea’s three major mobile operators – SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus – are expected to announce their 5G network equipment suppliers during September, Korea Times reported.
The three telcos are in...
Juniper Research said NTT DoComo, SK Telecom, LG U+, KT and Softbank will be at the forefront of 5G development
Japan and South Korea will lead the development of 5G technology, with the two markets accounting for 43% of global 5G connections in 2019, according...
The Korean carrier said it will also buy 5G equipment form additional vendors
Korean mobile telephony operator LG U+ is likely to acquire network equipment for the provision of 5G services from Chinese vendor Huawei, Korean press reported the telco’s Vice Chairman Kwon Young-soo, as...
SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ have secured spectrum in both 3.5GHz and 28GHz bands
South Korea has completed a tender process through which it awarded spectrum in both 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands for the provision of 5G services.
The government had made available...
The South Korean government aims to award the first 5G licenses on 15 June
South Korean mobile operators SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ have applied for the country's first auction for 5G spectrum, local news agency Yonhap reports, citing a statement from the Korean...
The government confirmed local carrier SK Telekom, KT Corp. and LG U+ will take part in the 5G spectrum auction scheduled for 15 June
South Korea announced it will hold its first auction of 5G spectrum on June 15, according to Korean press reports.
The Ministry...
The government confirmed three operators will bid for 28 blocks of spectrum in the 3.5Ghz band and 24 blocks in the 28Ghz band
The government of South Korea set the reserve price of the auction for 5G frequencies at 3.3 trillion won ($3.1 billion), according...
Mobile operators in South Korea had recently announced plans to launch commercial 5G services next year
South Korean mobile operators have plans to share the costs for the deployment of a nationwide 5G network in the Asian country, according to published reports citing government sources.
The...
SK Telecom, KT an LG U+ aim to launch commercial 5G in 2019
South Korea’s ICT Minister Yoo Young-min had a meeting with the country’s mobile carriers asking them to speed-up the process of deploying 5G networks in the Asian nation. The official met with...
The Asian government plans to award 5G spectrum licenses in June
South Korean mobile operators are expected to invest more than $9.36 billion in 5G network technology in 2018, Korean press reported citing industry sources.
According to the reports, the local Ministry of Science and ICT...
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Korean telecom operator LG U+ has signed a partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei to complete a large-scale 5G network test in a pre-commercial environment in Gangnam District, Seoul. The vendor said this network...
The companies said they will continue performing joint network test of 5G technology
Korea mobile operator LG U+ and ICT vendor Huawei have completed the first phase of a 5G urban field test in the 28 GHz millimeter wave spectrum band. The field test was carried...
Edge Computing Consortium members include Huawei, Intel, ARM and Chinese institutions.
Chinese vendors, together with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Intel, ARM and ISoftStone established the Edge Computing Consortium in Beijing. The...
Edge Computing Consortium members include Huawei, Intel, ARM and Chinese institutions.
Chinese vendors, together with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Intel, ARM and ISoftStone established the Edge Computing Consortium in Beijing. The...
The government raised $1.81 billion in the multiband spectrum auction
South Korea obtained 2.11 trillion won ($1.81 billion) in a recent multiband spectrum auction, well below the market expectation of 2.5 trillion won. The country’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom picked up both blocks of...
German communications service provider Deutsche Telekom has partnered with Boingo Wireless to provide global roaming tailored for business customers.
Deutsche Telekom has more than 151 million mobile customers and also plays in the fixed-line broadband space. Boingo, a U.S. company, is a prominent distributed antenna system and...
South Korean telco plans to launch the world’s first pilot of LTE-M technology
South Korea’s largest mobile telephony operator, SK Telecom, ended the second quarter of 2015 with 17.93 million LTE subscribers, climbing 16.6% vs. the year-ago period. LTE subscribers accounted for 62.6% of the...
Although the telecom industry is still a few years away from establishing a standard for 5G mobile networks, research and development is happening in earnest. The latest action in that space comes from Samsung and South Korean operator LG Uplus; on June 25 the...
NFV deal said to enhance South Korean operators network agility, LTE-U plans
South Korea telecom operator LG U+ is pushing forward with plans to deploy network function virtualization technology on its network, announcing a deal with Affirmed Networks to deploy an NFV-based virtual evolved packet...
