SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced yesterday plans to equip the Incheon SK Happy Dream Park with devices running on 5G technology for baseball fans visiting the stadium during the three-day season opening series. Dubbed the “5G Stadium”, the home stadium of the SK Wyverns will be transformed this weekend into a venue [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – KT Corp., South Korea’s biggest Internet service provider, plans to offer a trial service of its fifth-generation (5G) mobile network via self-driving buses and drone deliveries at next year’s Winter Olympics, company officials said Tuesday. KT is gearing up for the 5G trial service as PyeongChang will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said Wednesday it successfully developed and demonstrated joint network slicing with its German and Swedish partners, a new means of connectivity based on 5G roaming that creates multiple virtual networks from a single physical network. Deutsche Telecom and Ericsson were the partners in the trial test of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will increase the bandwidth allocated for the fifth-generation network (5G) by 2018 to accommodate sharply increasing data traffic, the science ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said it will newly secure the bandwidth up to 1,300 megahertz (MHz) and allocate the parts [...]
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Xura, Inc. (“Xura”), a leading provider of digital communications services, today announced that its affiliates have entered into definitive agreements to acquire Mitel Mobility, Inc. (“Mitel Mobile”), a division of Mitel Networks Corporation (“Mitel”) (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW), and Ranzure Networks, Inc. (“Ranzure”). Mitel Mobile, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – KT Corp., a South Korean broadband Internet and mobile carrier, said Tuesday that it will complete building a network for the fifth-generation network (5G) by September to provide a trial service of the technology at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Under the plan, KT will install the network in PyeongChang, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The global standard for ultra-fast fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, which is being developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), includes KT Corp.’s homegrown network management technology, the company said Friday. The decision to include KT’s technology in the 5G standard was made at a meeting of the ITU in [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that it has published ‘ATSCALE White Paper’ to suggest the direction for evolution of the next-generation telecommunications networks including the 5G network. In this white paper, SK Telecom describes in detail its ATSCALE vision and architecture, based on which it will realize [...]
SAN DIEGO, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mitel® (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW), a global leader in real-time business, cloud and mobile communications, today announced its next series of innovations for businesses and services providers as the company continues to deliver the technology and capabilities for mobile-first, cloud-enabled and millennial-focused communications and collaboration. Delivering a Millennial-Ready Contact Center [...]
Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) is showcasing its latest 5G system including radio, core and device at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016. - SK Telecom showcases 5G System Together with NOKIA, SK Telecom demonstrated live 20.5 Gbps transmission speed over the air being held in Barcelona, Spain. Standing at a point [...]