SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans who have subscribed to 5G service is estimated to hover above the 400,000 mark, industry sources said Sunday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy — the first country in the world to launch full-fledged 5G commercial services on April 5 — is believed to have reached the [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said its V50 ThinQ hit market shelves in South Korea on Friday, with the company hoping its slumping mobile business will rebound with its first 5G smartphone. The LG V50 ThinQ officially went on sale after weeks of delay to ensure its performance under 5G networks [...]
TOKYO, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) has extended its V93000 system to cost-efficiently test the next generation of 5G-NR radio frequency devices and modules on a single scalable platform. The new V93000 Wave Scale Millimeter solution has the high multi-site parallelism and versatility needed for multi-band [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create a fund worth 30 billion won (US$26 million) to help nurture immersive content for the super-fast 5G network, the government said Thursday. The fund, to be launched this month, aims to form an early market for immersive content and bolster the competitiveness of local tech [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who have subscribed to the 5G service hit 260,000, with the country fast moving to better meet consumer demands, the government said Wednesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy was the first country in the world to launch full-fledged 5G services on April 3. The new communication system provides super [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has sold more than 1 million units of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10, in South Korea, with the product becoming the fastest Galaxy device to surpass the mark. The South Korean tech giant said sales of the Galaxy S10 were more [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunication companies said Wednesday they will redouble efforts to expand coverage of ultrahigh-speed 5G networks throughout the country and address related complaints by consumers. South Korea was the first country in the world to launch full-fledged 5G services on April 3, which provide super fast connection speeds, [...]
ASHBURN, Va., Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey from Infovista, the leader in modern network performance, finds that only 25 percent of mobile network operators say they are extremely prepared for 5G, citing as their top concerns making sure their 5G network works correctly, the rollout stays within budgets, not being late to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Now that South Korea has won the much-coveted crown of the world’s “first” to launch 5G commercial service, it is time to improve the service’s quality and create lucrative business models to lead the way in the global 5G race, market watchers said Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S10 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Monday it will establish 5G network on a military campus to support smart training for cadets. SK Telecom said it will establish 5G network in the Korea Military Academy’s campus in northern Seoul within the first half of this year [...]