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Gov’t Opens Auction for 28 GHz Spectrum to Boost 5G Network

Gov’t Opens Auction for 28 GHz Spectrum to Boost 5G Network

SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT will kick off the bidding process for the 28 gigahertz spectrum Thursday, aimed at establishing the country’s fourth official mobile carrier. Three companies — Sejong Telecom Inc., Stage X Co. and My Mobile Consortium — will participate in the auction for the [...]

Regulator Fines Mobile Carriers 33.6 bln Won for False Ads on 5G Speed

Regulator Fines Mobile Carriers 33.6 bln Won for False Ads on 5G Speed

SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has decided to fine the country’s three mobile carriers a combined 33.6 billion won (US$25.4 million) for their misleading advertisements on the speed of the fifth-generation (5G) network services. The move came after SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. [...]

Ultra-high Speed 5G WiFi Service Successfully Demonstrated on City Bus

Ultra-high Speed 5G WiFi Service Successfully Demonstrated on City Bus

DAEJEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced on Wednesday that it had succeeded in demonstrating an ultra-high speed 5G mobile communications service on a normally operating bus, offering speeds about seven times faster than existing services. To upgrade the quality and speed of bus WiFi, the research team developed [...]

More than 40 pct of 5G Base Stations Concentrated in Greater Seoul Area

More than 40 pct of 5G Base Stations Concentrated in Greater Seoul Area

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of 5G base stations in South Korea are concentrated in the greater Seoul area, while some other regions are lacking in the number of such stations, data showed Thursday. About 44 percent of the nation’s 5G wireless base stations in the general-purpose 3.5-gigahertz (GHz) frequency band are [...]

SK Telecom’s 5G Download Speed Ranks No. 1 Among Global Telecos

SK Telecom’s 5G Download Speed Ranks No. 1 Among Global Telecos

SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, ranks No. 1 in terms of download speed of 5G networks, an industry report showed Friday. According to global mobile industry tracker Opensignal, the average download speed using SK Telecom’s 5G network was recorded at 469.6 megabits per second (Mbps), 2.55 [...]

Samsung Inks Deal to Provide 5G Solutions to Comcast

Samsung Inks Deal to Provide 5G Solutions to Comcast

SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will provide 5G solutions to America’s largest cable service provider, Comcast, in its latest deal as one of the world’s biggest 5G network services providers. The partnership to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) is aimed at helping Philadelphia-based Comcast to “enhance 5G [...]

S. Korea’s 5G Users Top 25 Million in July: Data

S. Korea’s 5G Users Top 25 Million in July: Data

SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 5G subscribers exceeded exceeded the 25 million milestone just three years and three months since 5G services were launched, data showed Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT reported that there were over 25.1 million 5G subscriptions as of July. 5G accounted for 33.3 percent of all [...]