SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom operators have vowed to expand investment, presenting a rosy blueprint for the 5G era. Nonetheless, the number of base stations in the country has started to decline for the first time since 2012, data showed Thursday. According to the Korea Communications Agency, the number of wireless [...]
BUSAN, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A towering shipyard crane nimbly moves over stacks of cargo crates at a terminal in Busan Port, South Korea’s largest seaport 453 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to snatch a container box and gently load it onto a truck. While the scene is business as usual for the bustling port [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of 5G users in South Korea stood at over 14 million last month, two years after the networks first went live in the country, data showed Friday, as the country pushes to accelerate adoption of the latest generation networks. As of the end of March, 5G subscriptions [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has commercialized the world’s first 5G-based disinfection robot in a move to automate anti-infection efforts against COVID-19 in health care facilities. The telecom operator said it partnered with Yongin Severance Hospital to deploy the robot, which uses a [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major mobile carriers will share their 5G networks in remote coastal and farm towns in a move to accelerate the rollout of the latest generation networks, the ICT ministry said Thursday. The carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — signed an [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — When 5G networks were first rolled out in South Korea in April 2019, telecom operators claimed that their ultrafast mobile speeds and low latency would usher in a new era for smartphone users and even power future technologies from autonomous vehicles to virtual reality (VR) content to cloud gaming. [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday it aims to encourage more competition in the local 5G market through the release of affordable mobile data plans from mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). The ICT ministry said 10 MVNOs in the country, including Sejong Telecom Inc., will release new data plans [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of 5G users in South Korea hit more than 13 million last month, data showed Wednesday, on the back of releases of new phones running on the latest generation networks. The country’s total 5G subscriptions stood at 13.66 million in February, up 792,118 from the previous month, [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Sunday it signed a deal to export US$11.14 million worth of 5G solutions and content to Thailand’s top mobile carrier, Advanced Info Service (AIS). Under the deal, LG Uplus will provide AIS with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has developed a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that can improve the performance of 5G networks in collaboration with U.S. chip designer Marvell Technology Ltd. The South Korean tech giant said the new SoC will be used in the company’s network equipment, such as massive [...]