SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Friday it will participate in a government-led project to develop a public transportation system based on self-driving automobile technology. The 35.9-billion-won (US$33.2 million) project, spearheaded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, is aimed at conducting detailed research on the country’s public transportation system [...]
DAEGU, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Daegu will be participating in a government project that aims to develop services that would create high-tech infrastructure based on 5th-Generation Wireless Systems (5G), allowing for autonomous vehicles and a “smarter city.” The local government of Korea’s fourth largest city announced yesterday that its consortium had [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers are expected to adopt a usage-based fee system for their upcoming super-high speed network service in a bid to help increase sales, a report said Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. announced Thursday that it will start commercial operations of its fifth-generation (5G) mobile network in March 2019. KT said its goal is to provide “perfect 5G” service by building a nationwide infrastructure so faster and more stable data processing, far exceeding the capacity of the existing 4G network, or long-term evolution (LTE), will be [...]
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile World Congress — Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Cisco today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and intend to collaborate on the development of 5G communication systems and networks. The joint effort aims to facilitate STC’s transformation into a digital service provider and supports the [...]
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile World Congress - Continuing on its path to disrupt the industry by redefining the network, Cisco announced today its ‘5G Now’ portfolio for service providers ready to go full throttle on their 5G roadmap. 5G services promise to offer emerging new services at significantly faster speeds, expanded capacity and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has clinched a deal with U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Communications to supply commercial fifth-generation network equipment. Samsung and Verizon plan to kick off commercial 5G services in Sacramento, California, over the second half of 2018, the South Korean tech giant said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science and ICT has revealed a comprehensive plan to build a hyper-connected smart network including the sale of 5G frequency bands and faster Wi-Fi speeds on the subway. The science ministry announced during a meeting with a Fourth Industrial Revolution committee that 5G frequency bands will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean telecom companies are reshuffling their staff with a focus shift to more profitable and long-term projects such as 5G and AI. According to sources close to the mobile industry, SK Telecom has reorganized seven of its departments and prioritized units dealing with up-and-coming and next-generation services such [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train traveling over 100 kph under a joint project with the Japan-based KDDI Corp. The two companies, which have been rolling out joint projects in the field since 2015, said they successfully observed data transmission speed [...]