SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of 5G base stations in South Korea are concentrated in the greater Seoul area, while some other regions are lacking in the number of such stations, data showed Thursday. About 44 percent of the nation’s 5G wireless base stations in the general-purpose 3.5-gigahertz (GHz) frequency band are [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of 5G network base stations throughout South Korea remains low at less than one quarter of that of LTE base stations, despite the fact that the amount of monthly data usage by domestic 5G subscribers is twice as high as that of LTE subscribers, data showed Monday. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of 5G network base stations in South Korea accounted for just 11 percent of the total in the second quarter, data showed Monday, amid continued user complaints against the latest generation networks. As of the April-June period, there were 162,099 5G base stations in the country, compared [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite about two years having passed since South Korea’s top three mobile carriers launched 5G networks, there are still a number of metropolitan cities and provinces that don’t have any 5G indoor base stations at all. According to data that the Ministry of Science and ICT presented to Rep. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has launched an initiative to improve the quality of public Wi-Fi service. To this end, the government plans to set up new public Wi-Fi base stations at 10,000 locations throughout the country by the end of this year, as well as to improve the quality [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it will install earthquake sensors at its mobile network base stations across the country, a move that can help expand readiness against natural disasters. Earthquakes have become a matter of public concern in South Korea in recent years with 88 earthquakes [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to recent a recent spike in coronavirus cases tied to clubbers in the popular entertainment district of Itaewon, mobile carriers submitted lists of people who accessed mobile base stations near the clubs and bars on Tuesday. The government has started to use the list to identify individuals [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100,000 5G base stations have been built across South Korea. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, there were 108,897 5G base stations in the country as of the end of February. The figure more than tripled from 35,851 base stations when 5G was commercialized in [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Although the 5G services for smartphones were introduced for the first time in the world on April 5, there are growing complaints as users are not able to make proper use of 5G service that is ultra-fast and ultra-low latency due to a lack of base stations. Some have [...]