SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday released a new multi-chip package (MCP) memory product for use in 5G smartphones as the South Korean tech giant tries to better target the fast-growing handset market. The world’s largest memory chip producer said it has begun mass-producing low-power double data rate 5 (LPDDR5) [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will supply its latest 5G network solutions to Vodafone, a London-based telecommunications giant, a move that will expand its presence in Europe. Under the deal, the South Korean tech giant will provide its commercial virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solutions and open radio [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it will wrap up the testing of a next-generation traffic system in Seoul by the end of this month as it seeks to accelerate efforts to develop self-driving technology based on its high-speed 5G network. The telecom operator [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based emergency medical system that enables the transfer of patient data and first-aid activities within ambulances on the basis of 5G telecommunication technologies will be introduced in field operations. The Yonsei University Medical Center developed the system after two years of collaboration with 20 other institutions. [...]
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. [...]