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SK Telecom announces Nationwide Roll-Out of LPWA Network for IoT

Plans to invest a total of KRW 100 billion by 2017 to boost its IoT business: It will deploy LPWAN throughout the nation within this year, develop IoT-dedicated modules, and constantly upgrade its IoT Platform ThingPlug to gain leadership in the IoT market and achieve win-win results with startups and SMEs. SK Telecom announced today its comprehensive strategy for the Internet of Things (I...

03/18/2016

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Korean Government to raise Transmit Power for 900 MHz to 200 mW to promote IoT

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) of South Korea announced on the 15th that it will issue an administrative notice of a draft proposal on transmit power raise for 900 MHz (917~923.5 MHz), the most used band globally, from the current 10 mW to max 200 mW, to promote new IoT business and services. So far, the band has been used primarily for shot-range services like RFID...

03/18/2016

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UHD TV Subscriptions in Korea reached 1.2 Million, accounting for 10% of Total IPTV Sub...

UHD TV subscriptions in Korea reached 1.2 million, accounting for 10% of total IPTV subscriptions. UHD IPTV subscriptions marked steep growth, reaching 1.2 million in just one and half year since its launch in September 2014. As of February, LG U+, KT and SK Broadband, respectively, have 510,000, 480,000 and 200,000 UHD IPTV subscribers. * Satellite UHD TV (KT Skylife): 130,000 * C...

03/17/2016

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ITU-T FG on IMT-2020 approved KT's 5G Integrated Network Management Solutions

KT said on the 13th that its documents on the 5G network management solution proposed in the 5th meeting of ITU-T Focus Group on IMT-2020 (FG on IMT-2020)* were approved as draft recommendations for the world's first 5G wired and mobile integrated network management. With the approval, KT will likely continue to take the lead in global efforts for 5G standardization. The purpose of th...

03/15/2016

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Samsung to deploy the World’s First 3GPP Standard based Public Safety LTE Solution in K...

Samsung Electronics today announced that it will provide telecommunications infrastructure and devices for the Korean Public Safety network using LTE technology (PS-LTE). It is the first live PS-LTE network in the world using the 3GPP telecommunications standard. PS-LTE enables more effective communication by sharing precise emergency information in the form of real-time video streaming and hig...

02/11/2016

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SK Telecom began building Korea's First Uplink CA Network, to be commercialized in 1H 2016

On the 25th, SK Telecom released its plan to commercialize 2-band uplink carrier aggregation in the network to offer enhanced data upload speeds. In addition, the company plans to introduce other useful solutions, such as UL 64QAM* that can drastically improve upload performance and MC-PUSCH** that can make the most of existing carriers, all to achieve maximum upload speeds possible....

01/27/2016

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Commercialization of inter-operator VoLTE service opens VoLTE era

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced on the 22nd that Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service developed through interworking among the Korean big 3 operators will be fully commercialized on the 23rd. MSIP, jointly with the big 3, conducted a final testing for VoLTE commercialization on the 20th. VoLTE is data-based voice call service offered via 4G LTE networks, and can...

11/22/2015

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Opening of 100% LTE - Mobile Telecommunication Businesses Finish VoLTE Linkage

Generation of 100% LTE that has data and voice-calling use LTE is finally here. Clear quality of sound that is almost identical to original sound, fast connection and new additional services are expected. Mobile telecommunication businesses also have started on developing new services in response to VoLTE, and it seems that 3G is about to be terminated real soon. According to communication...

11/11/2015

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LG U+ and Nokia: CA and pooling demonstration using vRAN and commercial smartphone

With 5G service scheduled to arrive in 2018, LG U+ and Nokia presented a new technology that can connect both 4G Remote Radio Head (RRH) and 5G RRH to one Digital Unit (DU), at the Nokia headquarters on the 16th. The technology is known to accelerate introduction of a next-generation base station platform, virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN). The new vRAN makes resource pooling more effic...

09/16/2015

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LG U+ awarded for VoLTE Service at MWC Shanghai 2015

On July 15, LG U+ was awarded for its contribution in development of LTE-based interconnected VoLTE service at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2015. LG U+, Korea's largest VoLTE service provider, has provided VoLTE service to its LTE subsribers since 2012, and now is offering HD Voice service to its 7 million subscribers in the nation. The company also has over 3 million users...

07/22/2015

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KT opened 5G R&D center with 6 Global Mobile Vendors

KT, an ICT industry leader in Korea who has just commercialized GiGA LTE only a month ago, announced on the 9th that it now opened 5G R&D Center, equipped with the latest network equipment and professionals from global leading vendors, at its Woomyon Research Center in Seoul, to take the lead in development of 5G ecosystem around the world. Two months ago in May, the company executed MoUs...

07/16/2015

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SK Telecom’s Indoor LBS Platform Wizturn Applied to Kyobo Book Center

K Telecom today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK Telecom’s home-grown beacon-based...

07/07/2015

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A Generation Where ‘GiGA Internet is connected through a Phone Line’ Is starting…There...

A Generation where GiGA speed Internet is used through a copper landline is starting. It is predicted that this technology is rapidly developing due to preparation of standard for global technologies. It is forecasted that Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) service, which takes up 9% of all internet subscribers, will be changed rapidly. It is also predicted that GiGA Korea that...

06/24/2015

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World's First Inter-Carrier VoLTE Service available in November

Korea, which presented the world's first VoLTE service in 2012, is now getting ready to present the world's first inter-carrier VoLTE service in November. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (MSIP) announced on the 17th that the Korean big 3 mobile carriers would participate in a trial VoLTE service at the end of June, and gradually expand it until the service is fully lau...

06/23/2015

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6 New Home IoT Services by LG U+

New home IoT services driven by the Korea's first Z-wave commercialization: U+ Switch, U+ Plug, U+ Energy Meter, U+ Open Sensor, Door Lock, and Room Temperature Regulator Remotely control lights, room temperature, plugs and door locks, check the electricity usage, or detect intrusion using window sensors at home In line with its open source IoT platform policy, LG U+ is currently in par...

05/18/2015

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KT to initialize Korea’s Smart Energy Technology in Uzbekistan

KT to initialize Korea’s smart energy technology in Uzbekistan. KT’s smart energy capability enters overseas expansion. KT (CEO Hwang Chang-Gyu, www.kt.com) announced on the 11th of May that it has concluded the Advanced Electricity Metering development project with Uzbekenergo, Uzbekistan’s power authority, the value of which is about $101 million (₩1.2 billion.) The proj...

05/12/2015

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SK Telecom, gearing up to enhance Bundled Plans Marketing and Integrated Media Business...

SK Broadband, a Korean ultra-high speed Internet and IPTV (Internet TV) service provider, held an extraordinary general shareholders meeting on May 6th, and resolved to return to its original plan to become a 100% subsidiary of SK Telecom. Back in March, SK Telecom offered to swap its shares with SK Broadband's at a rate specified, or to buy out SK Broadband shareholders for KRW 4,645 p...

05/06/2015

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Busan Subway becoming the World’s First Place to have Commercial LTE-R Set Up

Busan Transportation Corporation (BTC) has begun on setting up LTE-R in their subway. LTE-R is railroad network based on long term evolution (LTE) that the domestic research team has developed. It is being evaluated as exportation worth business. The Public Safety LTE(PS-LTE) that is used by National Disaster Safety Communication Network has similar requirements as LTE-R and therefore they will...

04/27/2015

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Netmanias Interview with Kisan Telecom at MWC 2015: Kisan Telecom introduced Korea's Ad...

Despite the recent trend of capacity-driven network paradigm (such as small cell), repeater solutions, such as In-building DAS and RF/ICS repeater, have been continuously playing a large part in radio network infrastructure, from 2G/GSM to LTE. Particularly, Korean telecom operators have preferred to deploy their radio network infrastructure with a large number of repeater systems across th...

04/02/2015

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SK Telecom’s Weather Information System caught the Visitors' Eye at MWC 2015

SK Telecom presented a variety of fascinating IoT services at MWC 2105. But, the most fascinating of all was Weather Pong. Weather Pong is a real-time weather information service that installs dedicated weather monitoring sensors and communication modules (IoT GWs) at cell sites, collects all weather information (i.e. precipitation, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind directio...

03/16/2015

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