The government said that 5G subscribers will probably account for 5% of total base by 2020
South Korea aims to complete the deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network in the second half of 2019, Heo Won-seok, director of ICT and Broadcasting Technology Policy at...
Initial focus is consumer internet of things solutions
Korean telecommunications firm LG Uplus has opened the country's first store exclusively dedicated to home internet of things (IoT) and internet television services, local press reported.
The new store is located in the city of Incheon. LG Uplus...
The new smart city initiative will be located between Seoul and Incheon
Dubai Holding has launched its smart city initiative in Korea which will cover an area of 4.7 square kilometers, and will be located between the two metropolitan cities of Seoul and Incheon.
Under the...
The new smart city initiative will be located between Seoul and Incheon
Dubai Holding has launched its smart city initiative in Korea, covering an area of 4.7 square kilometers located between the two metropolitan cities of Seoul and Incheon.
Under the multibillion-dollar project, Dubai Holdings and...
SK Telecom will work with the car-sharing company on connected car services
Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with compatriot car-sharing company SOCAR,to cooperate in the connected car business.
Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom and SOCAR will...
Verizon 5G efforts could leverage KT's millimeter wave technology
Verizon Wireless will work closely with Korea Telecom as part of its effort to lead the development of a "5G" standard. Korea Telecom announced the partnership this weekend, and said that the two carriers will cooperate to expedite...
Verizon 5G efforts could leverage KT's millimeter wave technology
Verizon Wireless plans to work closely with Korea Telecom as part of its effort to lead the development of a "5G" standard. Korea Telecom announced the partnership this weekend, and said the two carriers will cooperate to expedite...
Smart cities need good examples: a new report ranked Singapore as the top smart city in the world. But, four other cities in Europe and the U.S. are also doing a great job at deploying smart infrastructure.
Juniper Research’s 2016 global ranking of smart cities ranked Singapore...
Smart cities need good examples: a new report ranked Singapore as the top smart city in the world. But, four other cities in Europe and the U.S. are also doing a great job at deploying smart infrastructure.
Juniper Research’s 2016 global ranking of smart cities ranked Singapore...
4G LTE subscriber base reaches 5 million
Indonesian telecoms operator Telkomsel announced its 4G LTE network currently reaches 100 cities across the country.
The telco has already deployed more than 4,500 base stations in in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, and Papua.
Telkomsel reported that...
Xiaomi, Huawei and Apple led in market share
A total of 117.3 million smartphones were shipped to China in the last quarter of 2015, an 8% year-over-year increase according to a recent study by IDC. The growth was mainly driven by China’s annual singles day online...
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...
KT uses Nokia Flexi Multiradio 10 in its LTE network
South Korean operator KT and equipment provider Nokia recently conducted what the companies say is the industry's first enhanced machine type communications field trial.
The trial was conducted on KT's LTE network using Nokia's Flexi Multiradio...
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...
The 5G R&D agreement will focus on radio and core technologies
Swedish vendor Ericsson signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese telecom operator KDDI to collaborate on "5G" research and development with an eye on potential uses and deployment strategies.
Under the agreement, the companies plan...
Deployment of small cells is seen as a key avenue of boosting cellular capacity and adding network density, but commissioning have fallen short of projections, despite 2015 being viewed as a key year for small cells adoption.
As the heterogeneous network solutions continue to gain...
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...
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,"...
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...
