Carrier tested millimeter waves in the 28 GHz band
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom and compatriot vendor Samsung Electronics claimed to have successfully tested a "5G" system using 28 GHz spectrum in an outdoor environment. The two firms said the millimeter wave technology applied to...
Carrier tested millimeter waves in the 28 GHz band
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom and compatriot vendor Samsung Electronics claimed to have successfully tested a "5G" system using 28 GHz spectrum in an outdoor environment. The two firms said the millimeter wave technology applied to...
With $292M in funding, OMGTel could enter carrier market
Singapore firm OMGTel has secured S$400 million ($292 million) in funding commitments to obtain the country’s fourth mobile telephony license, according to local press reports.
The firm, which is a unit of wireless software solutions provider and...
SK Telecom said it will invest $84 million over 2 years on IoT plans
SK Telecom bolstered its support for the “Internet of Things,” announcing plans to build a nationwide low-power wide-area network this year, developing IoT-dedicated modules and upgrading its IoT platform. The moves...
The ONOS project’s CORD initiative includes carrier interest from AT&T, Verizon and SK Telecom
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project this week touted continued progress on its central office re-architected as data center initiative, including ongoing work towards the development of a...
AT&T AVP says openness is a ‘matter of survival’
SAN JOSE, California – After developing its niche in the hyperscale community, the Open Compute Project is now being embraced by telecom service providers looking to bring new services to market quickly and at scale.
The Open...
Telenor said it was currently in negotiation with vendors on LTE rollout plans
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor is currently holding negotiations with an undisclosed company to expand its operations in the Indian market, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reports, citing Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke.
Telenor India...
Alliance set to focus on 5G trial specification
BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operators KT and SK Telecom, Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless formed the 5G Open Trial Specification Alliance targeted at developing an aligned "5G" trial specification designed to serve...
Verizon Communications has started "5G" field tests with Nokia Networks, testing pre-standards technology in Verizon's live network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Verizon and Nokia said they tested an "extreme broadband" use case to look at the viability of replacing high-speed, indoor wireline connections with...
Korean telco plans to unveil 5G device prototype
BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operator SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claimed a network test resulting in over-the-air transmission speeds of 20.5 gigabits per second at this week's Mobile World Congress event. SK Telecom said the test meets...
NGENA aims to launch services in early 2017; comprises Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, SK Telecom and more
BARCELONA, Spain – CenturyLink, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio Infocomm and SK Telecom announced their Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance during this week's Mobile World Congress event.
The alliance plans...
Emphasis on openness, collaboration to help telcos achieve massive scale
BARCELONA, Spain – As Facebook has grown to support a staggering 1.58 billion users, the company has devised purpose-built network infrastructure designed to allow global access to a massive data repository. Now Facebook is looking...
Regulators said the three carrier candidates failed to meet minimum requirements
The Republic of Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning decided not to award a fourth mobile telephony license after evaluating three potential carrier candidates.
According to the authorities, the three telcos under review failed...
LTE accounts for more than 66% of South Korean telco’s subscriber base
South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, said it ended the fourth quarter of 2015 with 18.98 million LTE subscribers, climbing 13.4% vs. the year-ago period. LTE subscribers accounted for 66.3% of the...
Open Compute Project launches telco focus with support from DT, EE, SK, Verizon and AT&T
The Open Compute Project, which was formed five years ago under the umbrella of reimagining the design of servers and other hardware used in data centers, unveiled a Telco Project...
Regulators evaluating three potential carrier candidates
The mobile telephony market in South Korea may have a new player soon as the government confirmed it plans to decide this week whether to award a fourth mobile carrier license.
The country’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning...
New solutions to be based on SK Telecom ThingPlug platform
SK Telecom inked an agreement with networking giant Cisco Systems to develop new solutions for "Internet of Things" technology, The Korea Herald reported.
Under terms of the agreement, the two companies will develop new solutions combining...
Verizon joins the ONOS project, furthering support for open source SDN
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project on its 1-year anniversary scored a significant membership victory, announcing the addition of Verizon Communications to the program focused on accelerating the adoption of open...
IoT gateways have the potential to connect cellular networks with the low-power wide-area networks that promise to make connectivity affordable for billions of devices. Low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) transmit data at much lower rates than current LTE networks, meaning that they can use less...
SK Telecom used its ThingPlug IoT platform for CES demo
South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom, together with Samsung Electronics, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Atmel and Axstone, said it successfully demonstrated interworking between heterogeneous "Internet of Things" standards OneM2M and Open Interconnect Consortium. The demo...
Deliveries commenced in Q1 2015, will continue during 2016
Nokia Networks and China Mobile announced a framework agreement for the provision of mobile communications equipment and services valued at more than $1 billion.
The European vendor said deliveries under the agreement commenced in the first quarter...
That growth comes between January and September; the telco ended September with 194 million subscribers
China Telecom ended the third quarter with 43.7 million subscribers in the 4G LTE segment, after a net addition of 36.6 million subscribers during the first three quarters of the...
The companies work to launch a joint 5G testbed; test virtual slices optimized for IoT, virtual/augmented reality and other next-gen services
South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and Swedish vendor Ericsson have successfully demonstrated "5G" network slicing technology.
Through the demonstration held at SK Telecom’s...
South Korea, Japan and North America to lead future deployments of 5G
While the telecommunications industry still needs to fully define standards for "5G" development, and 4G LTE has room to continue expanding in both advanced and emerging markets, telecom equipment vendors and mobile operators in...
