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...
Agreement covers joint work between SK Telecom and China Unicom on 5G development
SK Telecom and China Unicom signed a memorandum of understanding focused on working together to develop a range of mobile and enterprise technologies.
The MoU, signed this week at a GSMA board meeting...
The UK operator also plans to launch VoLTE in the short term
U.K. telecom operator EE plans to start offering 4G LTE services through spectrum in the 800 MHz band by the end of this year, according to reports.
The telco acquired 2×5 megahertz of paired...
South Korean telco has already signed deals with 25 firms in the smart home sector
South Korean operator SK Telecom has unveiled a cooperation agreement with compatriot companies Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics to interconnect its smart home platform with respective smart home platforms of...
The South Korean telco has so far deployed 30,000 units of 2.1 GHz base stations
South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom is looking to deploy 5,000 additional base stations by the end of the year in support of the firm’s tri-band carrier aggregation service, the...
SK Telecom the first carrier in South Korea to install 5G equipment in its building
South Korean mobile telephony operator SK Telecom said it completed building a system to support the development of millimeter-wave technology, seen as one of the key enabling technologies for "5G,"...
BICS today announced the first end-to-end voice-over-LTE call between Asia and Europe. Working together with SK Telecom's SK Telink – international carrier services division – located in South Korea and Proximus located in Belgium, this trial was conducted on a live commercial network with...
ICT ecosystem, authentication, network security all covered by the deal
Networking powerhouse Ericsson has partnered with SK Holdings of South Korea to jointly develop "Internet of Things" platforms for the health care and transportation verticals.
The Swedish company and SK Holdings, parent company of SK Telecom,...
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...
5G network slicing work to use network virtualization, hyperscale data center
SK Telecom and Ericsson plan to tap virtualized network software to support “network slicing” technology in the core of the telecom operator’s “5G” network plans.
The two firms said the memorandum of understanding covers work...
As mobile networks get faster and more complex, potential bottlenecks in the backhaul network become increasingly important in quality of experience. Accedian Networks has reported that its virtualized solution that leverages big data analytics for backhaul monitoring has become a key component of SK Telecom's network.
The monitoring solution...
Nokia continues to focus on 5G research with a new network architecture developed in partnership with SK Telecom. The companies have separated the user plane from the control plane. SK Telecom said that the physical separation of the control plane and the user plane...
New service combines LTE and Wi-Fi technologies
South Korean mobile telephony operator KT announced it will commercialize the world’s fastest mobile network, branded GiGA LTE, which combines LTE networks with Wi-Fi connections.
The operator said that the new network service offers a maximum download speed of 1.17...
The telco aims to implement the platform in a smart city trial in Busan
South Korea’s largest mobile telephony operator, SK Telecom, has launched an open "Internet of Things" platform dubbed ThingPlug, with the main goal of boosting the IoT ecosystem.
The operator said that the...
South Korean government will let new player deploy network infrastructure in phases
The government of South Korea plans to pave the way for the entry of a fourth mobile telephony operator in the country.
The authorities of the Asian nation said that the new operator will be...
Ericsson has 5G pilot networks live in Plano, Texas, and Stockholm and is inviting mobile operators, academics, its eco-systems partners and analysts to come and try them out.
Although 5G has not yet been standardized, Ericsson is delving into some of the technologies expected to...
SK Telecom reports 17.44 million LTE subscribers; up 18% since last year
South Korea's largest mobile telephony operator SK Telecom reached 17.44 million subscribers in the LTE segment by the end of the first quarter of 2015, climbing 18.1% compared to the same time a year...
India
Indian telecommunications tower firm Indus Towers said it plans to invest approximately $40.7 million to deploy 1,000 towers in Punjab and Haryana states this year.
Indus Towers currently has 7,600 telecommunications towers in both states and more than 115,000 towers across India. The company was founded in...
Ericsson and SK Telecom plan 5G demo at 2018 Winter Olympics
With commercial availability of 5G cellular networks projected for 2020 – the same year analysts expect there will be some 50 billion connected devices – Ericsson is ramping up investment in research and development that looks beyond...
Telecom Italia modernizing network
Telecom Italia has returned to profit for the first time in three years, reports the Financial Times.
Net income climbed to $1.5 billion in 2014 after a loss of $735 million the year before when results were impacted by an impairment charge....
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