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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (1): Carrier Aggregation Evolution Strategy

SK Telecom is the #1 mobile operator in Korea, with sales of KRW 16.6 trillion (USD 15.3 billion) in 2013, and with 50.1% of a mobile mobile subscription market share in 2Q 2014. It launched LTE service back in July 2011, and now more than half of its subscribers are LTE service subscribers, with 55.8% of LTE penetration as of 2Q 2014. Due to LTE subscription growth, more advanced device feat...

10/07/2014

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Samsung Advances AI in Mobile Networks with NVIDIA

Samsung showcased significant progress in technology and ecosystem development of AI-RAN, unlocking the full potential of software-based networks with NVIDIA’s AI platform Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that the company is working with NVIDIA to advance AI-RAN technologies. The collaboration underscores Samsung's commitment to fostering a robust ecosystem and divers...

03/13/2025

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Korea ICT News

Samsung and O₂ Telefónica to Jointly Test Modern vRAN and Open RAN Technologies in Germany

Companies to test advanced cloud-native and open architecture Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and O₂ Telefónica today announced that the companies will test advanced cloud-native vRAN (“virtualized Radio Access Network”) and Open RAN technologies in Germany. The two technologies enable network operators to set up even more flexible network architectures in which hardware and...

10/31/2023

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5G Network Architecture of Rakuten and Dish: Commons and Differences

♦ Netmanias One-Shot, Dish's 5G Network Architecture: Cloud-Native 5G RAN (5G O-RAN) and 5G SA Core on AWS, 2021.05.06 ♦ Netmanias One-Shot, 일본 이통사 Rakuten의 Fully-Virtualized, E2E Cloud-Native 5G SA Network Architecture, 2020.08.27

05/17/2021

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SK Telecom 5G MEC Deployment Architecture

References Date Author(s) Title Source Related Netmanias Link 2019.11.06 SK Telecom 이강원 5G and MEC Open Networking Korea (ONK) 2019 Fall 2019.10.31 SK Telecom 박민철 오픈소스 기반의 MEC 개요 및 주요 Global Player 동향 Innovative Network T...

11/08/2019

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Mobile Industry Works Together to Deliver Complete 5G System Standard on Time

3GPP TSG #80 Plenary Meeting has approved the completion of the standalone (SA) Release 15 5G specifications. After the release of the 5G NR specifications for non-standalone (NSA) operation in Dec. 2017, another essential step of standardization of 5G has been successfully completed. Now, the whole industry is taking the final sprint towards 5G commercialization. The completion of SA specifica...

06/14/2018

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Korea ICT News

Next Generation Mobile Networks Evolution with Convergence, Cloud and SDN

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Saurabh Verma. Saurabh Verma Chief Technology Consultant & Founder at Fundarc Communication All Articles by Saurabh Verma How to...

04/27/2018

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NFV/SDN Platform or Application Driven? Set Right Focus to reach the final Goal

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Saad Sheikh who is the Chief Architect Consultant in Saudi Telecom Company primarily responsible for Network Deployment and planning for CSP Digital transformation involving domains of NFV, SDN, Telco Cloud, 5G. Always interested in those disruptive technology driving the industry transformation, Author hails from Telco...

03/26/2018

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Transformation of CSPs to Platform Providers

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Faiz Alam who is ICT & Sustainability Professional. Faiz Alam ICT & Sustainability Professional All Articles by Faiz Alam How t...

04/24/2017

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Sneak preview of KT's 5G Olympics in PyeongChang - Immersive services, 5G autonomous d...

KT's 5G trial services that it had developed for 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games were presented to the world at an ongoing test event called Hello PyeongChang (since last November until April). With around 300 days until the Olympic, the telco is carrying out various demonstrations in the test event where actual games as well as the Olympic rehearsal are being held. KT has been testin...

04/07/2017

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KT shaping IoST strategies - focusing on NB-IoT

In last November, KT, a South Korea-based telco, formed 'NB-IoT Alliance' with LG U+, aiming to launch NB-IoT service as early as Q1 2017. Later in the month, the company, apparently stimulated by SK Telecom who had just started LoRa-based, IoST-dedicated, commercial services, announced another plan to complete deployment of a nationwide NB-IoT network by June 2017 for faster entry to t...

02/03/2017

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5G: The Future of Mobile Telecoms

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Mohammad AbuSalah who is managing IDC telecom business in Saudi Arabia. Mohammad AbuSalah Senior Telecoms Consultant at IDC All Articles by ohammad AbuSalah...

01/16/2017

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The IoT - WAN

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Ejaz - Muhammad Sial who has served across 4 continents with Tier-1 service providers and vendors covering domains of Mobility, IOT, SDN and NFV. Ejaz - Muhammad Sial Technology Strategist at T-Mobile All Articles by Ejaz - Muhammad Sial...

09/26/2016

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SK Telecom and Nokia implement World’s First Software-Defined RAN (SDRAN) in a Commerci...

SK Telecom and Nokia Implement World’s First Cloud-based Radio Access Network in a Commercial LTE Network The two companies successfully implement the world’s first next-generation, cloud-based, virtual base station The new technology takes advantage of virtualized functions to deliver new network scalability and elasticity, enhancing quality of service and network stability wit...

09/12/2016

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SDN/NFV-based vCPE Services by AT&T, Verizon and KT

On July 18th, AT&T, a mobile network operator in the USA, rolled out Network Function on Demand, a Virtual CPE (vCPE) service, followed by its rival Verizon who also launched the similar service named Virtual Network Service, three days later. So far, many debates have been held about "how to apply SDN/NFV technologies to operators' commercial networks", and dozens of use cases have b...

08/22/2016

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On Resource Partitioning, Network Slicing and Service Chaining

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Thierry Van de Velde who is technology specialist in Mobile Internet networks, architecture and solutions. Thierry Van de Velde Consulting Technology Specialist at Nokia, IP & Optical Networking All Articles by...

12/18/2015

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Korean big 3, getting ready for 5G SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ (1): KT

For the rest of the Q1 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here In Korea, LTE service began back in July 2011. Then in June 2013 when LTE subscription exceeded 40% of the nation's total mobile subscription, LTE-A was commercialized for the first time in the world. Here are some facts about Korea's LTE. As of December 2014, i) Korea recorded an LTE sub...

01/14/2015

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CoMP (1): CoMP Types - CS, CB, JT and DPS

Today, we will learn about CoMP, an inter-cell cooperation technology in LTE-A, since we learned about ICIC and eICIC in the previous posts. At an early stage of LTE/LTE-A, offering high speed is the most important marketing point for operators. However, as LTE subscribers and traffic grow, satisfying users with high Quality of Experience (QoE), for example, by improving user throughputs at cel...

08/12/2014

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LTE Network Architecture: Basic

Obviously, the hottest issue in mobile communication today is LTE. All three top telecommunication operators in Korea are trying hard to promote their brands, each containing the technical term "LTE" somewhere, for greater exposure of the brands to the public. So, we will briefly go over what network elements make the LTE network today. The Figure below is an illustration of an LTE Network R...

07/01/2013

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Roaming in 5G Network

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Rajarshi Pathak who is AVP, Enterprise Applications at Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd. Rajarshi Pathak AVP, Enterprise Applications at Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd All Articles by Rajarshi P...

02/24/2020

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