The event, Destination:ifland, was just the first part of a larger series called The Meta Guide
Singtel and SK Telecom (SKT) held a joint metaverse event where attendees designed digital avatars and then participated in various activities. The experience, called "Destination:ifland", took place at the...
The government of South Korea noted that the decision was made because carriers failed to deploy the 28 GHz radio stations that were required as part of the licensing
The government of South Korea has effectively cancelled the spectrum licenses in the 28 GHz band...
SK Telecom has recently announced the launch of its metaverse platform in 49 countries and regions
South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Asian communications technology group, Singtel, to jointly grow their metaverse businesses in some Asian markets,...
The three operators in South Korea had secured frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands in 2018
The South Korean government said it will cancel the spectrum licenses in the 28 GHz band that was allocated to local operators for 5G deployments, citing...
NTT DoCoMo and SKT will align their concepts and timelines for the early deployment of 6G
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo announced an agreement with Korean telecommunications operator SK Telecom (SKT) to collaborate on the enhancement of their respective "smart-life businesses" and as well as communications...
During the first three quarter of the year, SK Telecom recorded a net addition of 2.59 million 5G customers
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the third quarter of the year with a total of 12.47 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up...
Last year, SK Telecom rearranged its business into five different groups, namely fixed and mobile telecommunications, media, enterprise, AIVERSE (AI+Universe), and connected intelligence
South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, aims to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, the telco’s CEO Ryu Young-sang said during a...
South Korea ended July with 25.1 million subscribers in the 5G segment
Nearly half of 5G base stations in South Korea are concentrated in the greater Seoul area, while other regions in the country are lagging behind in terms of the deployment of base stations,...
KT noted that this specific 5G network will be used in the first phase of the K-UAM Grand Challenge initiative
South Korean carrier KT said it has completed the construction and performance verification of a 5G network exclusively for urban air mobility (UAM).
The Korean government...
5G accounted for 33.3% of all mobile subscriptions in South Korea in July
South Korea ended July with 25.1 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local press reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Local carriers in South Korea had initially launched 5G...
5G OI Lab said it is also welcoming 16 multi-stage startups to join the Lab’s fall program
The 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced that SK Telecom, GAF and Deloitte have joined the group as new partners.
In a release, 5G OI Lab said...
SK Telecom said that the UAM pilot will be carried out in Jeju, one of South Korea’s main tourist attractions
An urban air mobility consortium led by Korean carrier SK Telecom and Hanwha Systems has inked a partnership with the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province with...
SK Telecom recorded a net addition of 1.81 million 5G customers in H1
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the second quarter of the year with a total of 11.68 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 51.8% year-on-year, the carrier said in...
LG Uplus secured additional spectrum in the 3.4-3.42 GHz band
Korean carrier LG Uplus secured an additional 20 megahertz of spectrum to use for 5G, according to Korean press reports.
Last week, the Ministry of Science and ICT said it would allocate the 3.4-3.42 GHz frequency...
The total number of 5G subscribers in South Korea reached nearly 24 million in May
South Korea’s Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho urged the country’s mobile carriers to introduce mid-tier 5G data plans during a meeting with the operator’s CEOs.
During the minister’s first...
South Korea was the first country to launch commercial 5G networks in April 2019 and currently has 5G coverage across its 85 cities
The total number of 5G subscribers in South Korea reached nearly 24 million in May, Korean press reported, citing data from the...
LG Uplus and Nokia aim to cooperate for research on the expansion of network structures, bandwidths and service zones
LG Uplus, South Korea’s third-largest mobile operator, has reached a tentative deal with Finnish vendor Nokia to cooperate in research and development (R&D) projects for next-generation...
SK Telecom said its 5G customer base accounted for 45.9% of total mobile subscribers at end-March
South Korean operator SK Telecom ended the first quarter of 2022 with a total of 10.88 million subscribers in the 5G segment, after a net addition of 1 million...
The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to shut down its Objenious LoRaWAN network from 2024, by declaring a 66 percent jump...
The average number of 5G base stations per district in Seoul is estimated at 1,507 units
South Korea’s capital Seoul ended March with a total of 37,680 5G base stations, according to local press reports.
Among Seoul’s 25 districts, the top three areas in terms of...
As telecom networks disaggregate and move toward delivering powerful infrastructure and applications at the edge, the number of components to deploy and manage across geographic locations grows exponentially. At the same time, Communications Services Providers (CSPs) are looking to transform their networks to monetize...
Telcos in South Korea area currently providing 5G services via NonStandalone networks
Korean mobile operators have deployed a total of 202,903 5G base stations as of the end of February, Korean press reported, citing figures from the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT.
This figure is...
The Petasus 5G MEC solution combines SK Telecom’s 5G MEC solution and Dell PowerEdge servers
Korean operator SK Telecom, along with partner Dell Technologies, announced that it has launched an enterprise 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) solution named "Petasus".
The Asian carrier noted that MEC enables...
The government of South Korea previously said it expected to launch a pilot project for 6G mobile services in 2026
South Korea aims to commercialize 6G services by around 2028, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing the country's science minister.
"We are continuing our preparations for...
