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07/29/2015

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Mobile Subscriber Growth of China Mobile

China Mobile launched 4G service in December 2013. Now, 4G subscription accounts for only 23.2% of the company's entire mobile service, but that still means a whopping 189 million subscribers.

07/29/2015

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SK Telecom and Ericsson to collaborate on 5G Network Slicing

Two companies sign an MOU to develop and deploy 5G core network Network slicing technology set to play key role in meeting the demands of 5G use cases SK Telecom today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ericsson to collaborate on the development of a 5G core network that deploys network slicing technology. Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom...

07/27/2015

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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 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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Tech-Blog

KT 4K UHD IPTV Services

07/16/2015

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SK Telecom Collaborates with Intel on 5G Enabling Technologies

Companies will collaboratively develop and verify 5G device prototypes as well as key 5G technologies including ‘Anchor-Booster Cell’ and ‘Massive MIMO’ SK Telecom’s CTO to speak on the company’s 5G vision at GTI Summit and GSMA Conference held during MWC Shanghai 2015 SK Telecom today announced that it extended its strategic collaboration with In...

07/16/2015

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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 wins the Right to establish World’s First LTE-R Business

Busan won the right to start ‘Busan Number 1 Line Subway Wireless Facility Purchase and Installment’ business that received attention as world’s first LTE-R. SK Telecom can occupy advantageous position in expansion of LTE-R throughout Korea and foreign LTE-R businesses and Public Safety-LTE business. Busan Transportation Corporation announced on the 13th that it has selected...

07/14/2015

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Commercialization Status of LTE-LTE and LTE-WiFi Carrier Aggregation in Korea (June 30,...

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here

07/10/2015

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KT's GiGA Wire approved as an International Standard at ITU-T Meeting

KT announced on the 10th that its GiGA Wire technology, a telephone line-based Internet technology, was recently approved as an international standard at an ITU-T meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland. Technologies developed in accordance with international standards and applied accordingly are registered as official Technical Paper if approved by ITU-T. So, the approval of GiGA Wire tech...

07/10/2015

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Samsung and Qualcomm are feeling out about Working Together again for Next-Gen Galaxy S7?

Samsung Electronics is examining again whether to work with Qualcomm again for development of premium Smartphones. Samsung Electronics applied its Exynos rather than Qualcomm’s Application Processor (AP) into Galaxy S6. There are a lot of interests circling around Samsung Electronics as it is confirmed that it is considering using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon for Galaxy S7 that will be sho...

07/10/2015

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Korea Communication Review, Q3 2015

Table of Content LG U+ achieved 600 Mbps in its Second LTE-U Demonstration We had a chance to discuss with a member of LG U+ Access Network Development Team who conducted the LTE-U demonstration last month. Below we will briefly review what we learned from him about their LTE-U demonstration, target areas, and commercialization plan, one at a time....

07/10/2015

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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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KT demoed Dual Connectivity - Data Transmission Speeds and Base Station Capacity boosted

Now operators can boost both data transmission speeds and transmission reliability by having data transmitted from two LTE base stations at the same time. KT announced on the 8th that it successfully demonstrated an interworking technology between base stations called Dual Connectivity in partnership with Ericsson. Previously, base stations could interwork with each other only in the ways...

07/08/2015

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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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4K UHD VoD contents provided by Korean Big 3 Telco (June 30, 2015)

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here

07/02/2015

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