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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …