SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Monday it plans to launch a 5G stand-alone service in the first half of the year after a test on its commercial 5G network was successful. Its stand-alone 5G data call using the company’s multi-vendor commercial 5G network in Busan [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s major telecommunications firm, said Monday it has developed a 5G-powered medical service with a Seoul hospital to provide better patient care. KT said it built a 5G network at the Samsung Medical Center (SMC) and successfully applied its 5G technology to medical practices last week. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top three telecommunication firms said Friday they have joined hands to offer 5G services on subways in major cities. The three — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they have recently completed setting up 5G infrastructure on the subway system in Gwangju, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it aims to expand cooperation with Microsoft Corp. on console games. SKT said it plans to support the development of games for Xbox, a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft, by boosting investment and marketing activities. To initiate [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will acquire U.S. network service provider TeleWorld Solutions (TWS) Inc. to better provide 5G infrastructure and solutions. Under the deal, TWS will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics America Inc., according to the South Korean tech giant. Samsung didn’t reveal the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –- SK Telecom Co. (SKT), South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has formed an international task force with five Asian telecommunication firms to develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies and services. Led by SKT, Global MEC TF will be comprised of Hong Kong’s PCCW Global Ltd. and [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. is ready to work with various partners in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the CEO of South Korea’s top mobile carrier said Wednesday, as he urged other South Korean players to join hands to lead the advanced technology. SK Telecom CEO Park Jung-ho said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has started offering super high-speed internet service for the entire country that will allow universal, convenient access to online data, the government said Sunday. “High-speed internet has been designated as a universal service that everyone is entitled to receive no matter where they are,” the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam is the country with the largest number of international roaming users for mobile phones at the end of this year. KT Corp., one of South Korea’s leading telecommunications firm, said Vietnam was the country that had the largest number of users of its voice call roaming service “ON” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The average download speed via 4G LTE networks in South Korea got faster this year, the country’s ICT ministry said Monday, with SK Telecom Co. offering the fastest data transmission speed. The average 4G LTE download speed in South Korea reached 158.53 megabits per second (Mbps) in 2019, up [...]