SK Telecom announced that for the third year in a row, the company’s LTE small cell technology has been recognized at the Small Cell Industry Awards held in London, UK. (image credit: SK Telecom)
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced that for the third year in a row, the company’s LTE small cell technology has been recognized at the Small Cell Industry Awards held in London, UK.
This year, SK Telecom was awarded in the Innovation in Commercial Deployment category for its development of new LTE small cell solutions and deployment improvements.
The Small Cell Industry Awards, the world’s most prestigious award in the field of small cells, recognizes outstanding contributions to the small cell industry. The awards organizer, Small Cell Forum, is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 2007 to accelerate small cell technology adoption and maximize the potential of mobile services worldwide. The Forum’s 140 members include 68 mobile operators like SK Telecom, Vodafone, AT&T and NTT Docomo, as well as telecoms hardware and software vendors, content providers, and innovative start-ups.
Since commercializing LTE small cells in June 2012 for the first time in the world, SK Telecom has focused on developing technology that supports and enhances the performance of its core LTE small cell.
Last year, SK Telecom has commercially deployed three new small cell types, including Femto Remote System, LTE Outdoor Small Cell, and Compact Home Femto, or HeNB. In addition, the company improved current HeNB performance by implementing algorithms and solutions that solve handover problems resulting from limited PCI. Deployment of HeNBs and solutions was supported by SK Telecom’s internally-developed, centralized SON.
With development and application of advanced LTE small cell technologies, SK Telecom is able to offer seamless data services to over 14.7 million LTE subscribers around the country.
“SK Telecom is truly honored to be recognized once again at the Small Cell Industry Awards for our work in small cell development and deployment,” said Park Jin-hyo, Senior Vice President and Head of Network Technology R&D Center at SK Telecom. “As LTE small cells are the backbone of our customer experience, we remain dedicated to taking every opportunity to engineer even better performance and efficiency in small cell technology.”
About SK Telecom
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is Korea’s largest telecommunications company with more than 27 million mobile subscribers, accounting for over 50% of the market. The company reached KRW 16.602 trillion in revenue in 2013. As the world’s first company to commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK Telecom launched the nation’s first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world’s first mobile carrier to launch LTE-Advanced on June 26, 2013 by applying core LTE-Advanced technologies including Carrier Aggregation. Backed by rapid nationwide deployment, a rich device lineup and diverse mobile value added services, the company secured over 14.77 million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers as of March 2014. Also, based on its strength in network operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth engines by building ICT convergence business models in areas of healthcare, enterprise solutions, media and education. For more information, please visit www.sktelecom.com or email to press@sktelecom.com
Source: SK Telecom
