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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Spain and South Korea top Open Signal report
In a new report, crowd-sourced network performance analytics firm Open Signal broke down global LTE download speeds and overall network performance, by asking users equipped with their application to report network metrics, which were then compiled into its...
Kumu Networks in business with Telefonica, SK Telecom on path to 5G
BARCELONA, Spain – Kumu Networks, a Bay Area-based company that started as a doctoral project by Stanford University students, announced major carrier deals with players Telefonica and SK Telecom.
Kumu specializes in self-interference cancellation,...
SK Telecom announces trio of MoUs tapping into LTE network experience
South Korean telecom provider SK Telecom said it has signed memorandum of understandings at this week’s Mobile World Congress event with a trio of partners in a move to expand network advances. Those partners...
SK Telecom, Cisco, Spirent join open-source SDN, NFV organizations
The move toward a unified approach to telecom network virtualization using software-defined networking and network function virtualization continues to draw interested companies, as a pair of organizations announced expansion of their member lists.
The Open Network Lab...
Verizon Wireless, SK Telecom and T-Mobile US visit labs
Ericsson and Qualcomm are testing carrier-grade LTE-U technology that aggregates licensed and unlicensed spectrum to provide a data-speed boost for small cell.
Representatives from major international carriers Verizon Wireless, SK Telecom and T-Mobile US observed LTE-U, sometimes called...
The Linux Foundation’s recently launched Open Platform for NFV Project expanded its membership role as well as announced a director to head up the OPNFV plans to provide a “carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and...
Nokia, Apple, AT&T and others reported earnings in excess of quarterly projections. In fact, holiday season sales of Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus propelled the company to the biggest quarterly profit – $18 billion – ever recorded by a public company.
Nokia’s Networks unit...
SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claim first commercialization of EICIC
SK Telecom announced Wednesday that it, along with Nokia Networks, has commercialized "enhanced inter-cell interference coordination," as part of the LTE-Advanced technology standard.
EICIC is designed to control signal interference between macro and micro base stations. SK...
SK Telecom ‘world’s first tri-band LTE-A’ ads banned
A South Korean court has banned SK Telecom from advertising claims that it has commercialized the first tri-band LTE-Advanced service. The ruling comes after KT and LG Uplus filed complaints claiming that the ads were false and...
SK Telecom and Nokia aim to build 5G technologies
SK Telecom and Nokia announced they will work together to develop fifth-generation mobile network technologies. The two companies will research and develop core 5G network technologies such as cloud-based virtualized base station technology.
A major focus of...
SK Telecom under investigation
The Korea Communications Commission said it will probe an alleged illegal subsidy case centering on SK Telecom. The carrier is accused of using illegal subsidies to lure customers away from other operators.
The probe comes after South Korean carrier, KT, submitted documents...
Hutchison Whampoa in talks to acquire Telefónica's O2
Hutchison Whampoa is reportedly weighing the purchase of Telfónica SA's United Kingdom unit, O2. Hutchison is reportedly considering paying as much as $13.6 billion for O2. Sources report that the plans are in early stages and that no deal is imminent.
Hutchison,...
KT accuses SK Telecom of deceptive marketing
The Korea Times reports that Korean carrier, KT filed a court injunction asking to stop rival SK Telecom advertisements for what KT claims is the first commercialization of a tri-band LTE-Advanced wireless network. Legal representatives for KT are reportedly...
SK Telecom rolls out tri-band LTE-A service
SK Telecom claims it has commercialized the first tri-band LTE-Advanced service. The company made the announcement Sunday, noting that the service is in an effort to develop so-called "5G" networks.
The tri-band LTE-A service is designed to allow users...
Carrier aggregation helps Nokia Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, China Mobile achieve 4.1 Gbps speed
China Mobile and Nokia Networks, along with Ooredoo Qatar have announced a new LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation. The three companies said they reached 4.1 Gbps per second over the hybrid TD-FDD LTE...
SK Telecom raided
State prosecutors and the government descended on SK Telecom headquarters Tuesday. Agents raided the company's headquarters in Seoul, seizing computer hard drives and documents related to the health care division of the company. The investigation is into whether SK Telecom illegally collected its...
A quick wrap-up of global carrier news.
• SK Telecom has developed and commercialized new technology that makes 2G and 3G services possible through the LTE network. Enhancing the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks, "2G/3G over LTE" uses the LTE network instead of a fixed-line 2G/3G infrastructure. SK Telecom...
