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KT GiGAtopia: What's promised and what's delivered

It has been over a year since KT Chairman Hwang Chang Kyu’s declaration of his vision GiGAtopia on May 20, last year. The main idea of GiGAtopia was that the company would make both of its wired and wireless networks giga-class, through investment of KRW4.5 trillion for three years to come. We thought it would be a good time to check how they did for the past one year, and what innovation...

07/18/2015

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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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Evolution of SK Telecom’s in-building LTE solutions

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here As of April 2015, SK Telecom's mobile data traffic accounts for 44% of the entire mobile traffic in Korea (See Figure 1). Since the launch of LTE service, the company has experienced rapid growth of mobile traffic - more than tenfold from 5.7 PB in June 2011 (right before LTE service launch) to...

07/09/2015

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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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LG U+ IPTV (U+ tv G 4K UHD) Service (1): Live TV

LG U+'s IPTV service ►1. Live TV 1.1 Basic channel 1.2 Multiview: operator-selected channels 1.3 Personalized Multiview: user-selected channels 2. VoD 2.1 UHD VoD: Encoding rate and streaming of 4K UHD VoD content LG U+, with its competitors KT and SK Broadband, presented Live TV service (real-time retransmission of broadcast channels ov...

05/26/2015

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Tech-Blog

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 SK Telecom at MWC 2015: Big data-based intelligent operation p...

For the rest of the Q2 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here SK Telecom at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 demonstrated its newest network operation platform for 5G called “Fast Data Platform”, using two big data-based intelligent operation platforms: T-Packet Analytics & Network Intelligence (T-PANI) and Analytics Platform for Intelligent O...

04/14/2015

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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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Netmanias Interview with KT at MWC 2015: KT's demonstrations of LTE TDD (9-carrier CA,...

For the rest of the Q2 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here As a sequel to the previous post (KT's demonstration of LTE-H and LTE-U), this post will introduce another pre-5G/5G technology, LTE-TDD, showcased by KT at MWC 2015, covering three relevant demonstrations: 9-carrier CA, LTE-UL/DL CA, and triple mode cell. 3. LTE-B (LTE-Beyond) Figure...

03/31/2015

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Netmanias Interview with KT at MWC 2015: KT's demonstrations of LTE-H and LTE-U

For the rest of the Q2 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here At Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015, KT demonstrated a variety of new 5G, Hetnet and IoT technologies and services. Of all those presented, below we will focus on our most interested topics, WiFi-related pre-5G technology, LTE-Hetnet (LTE-H) and LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U), and see how t...

03/30/2015

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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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6 things you should know about enterprise WLAN

For the rest of the Q2 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here 6 things you should know about enterprise WLAN IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN (“WLAN”) technology, commonly...

03/12/2015

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Captive portal-based user authentication in KT, SK Telecom and LG U+'s Wi-Fi hotspots

As noted in the previous post, currently there are two types of user authentication in the Wi-Fi networks operated by Korean operators: IEEE 802.1X-based and captive portal-based authentication. 802.1X-based authentication targets primarily mobile devices with an operator's USIM card, whereas captive portal-based authentication to be discussed here is used to attract users without a permane...

03/10/2015

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SK Telecom signs MOUs with Taiwan Mobile, Skytel and Nokia Networks at MWC 2015

SK Telecom announced today that it signed MOUs with a number of overseas companies while participating in the 2015 GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain. Aimed at expanding its presence in the global markets with extensive knowhow and experience in industry-leading mobile network technologies, SK Telecom has entered into MOUs with three different companies namely Taiwan Mo...

03/05/2015

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KT CEO Hwang Chang-Gyu, the only CEO in the Asia Region, gives Keynote Speech at the MWC

▲ KT confirms Tech of KT leadership in “The Road to 5G” session with its keynote speech. Through his keynote speech on 5G network services, KT CEO Hwang Chang-Gyu showed a wonderful glimpse of the future at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain. As the primary speaker for “The Road to 5G” session, CEO Hwang stated, “In the era of the I...

03/04/2015

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