SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — ICT Minister Yoo Young-min met with the heads of the country’s main mobile carriers Friday, asking for a joint effort to swiftly set up fifth-generation network technology. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Inc. — have plans [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — By next year, a wireless network 100 times faster than the one currently in place will be installed throughout Seoul’s subway infrastructure. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on January 4 that it will start by testing a “Mobile Hotspot Network” (MHN) on subway line 8 cars. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Co. has developed an LTE-based autonomous driving technology as part of its ongoing effort to make a presence in the next-generation vehicle market, the company said Sunday. On top of its mainstay handset and home appliance businesses, LG Electronics has stepped up efforts to diversify its portfolios, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The market of fifth-generation network services in South Korea will reach some 35 trillion won (US$31 billion) in 2025, as the faster network technology is anticipated to be used in many areas from mobile phone networks to smart homes and connected cars, industry data showed Sunday. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Telecom Co. on Thursday demonstrated the communication between fourth-generation and fifth-generation networks for the first time in the industry, the companies said. The South Korean tech giant and the country’s No. 1 mobile carrier said they successfully made communications between the long-term evolution (LTE) [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has developed the industry’s first long-term evolution (LTE) network modem technology, which supports the 6CA solution. It is expected to enable faster and stable data communication. The Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology allows network operators to provide fast and stable data communication by bundling [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Monday it released a new tablet PC with improved portability, which supports the long-term evolution (LTE) network connectivity. The South Korean tech giant said the 290-gram G Pad IV 8.0 FHD LTE can be considered “as light as a can of soda,” making the device [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The monthly data consumption of South Koreans using the fourth-evolution network (LTE) surpassed 6 gigabytes for the first time in April, reflecting the rising demand for video streaming and other services in the mobile environment, industry data showed Friday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Science, [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea successfully launched its fourth telecommunications satellite Friday that will provide enhanced broadcasting and communications services, the ICT ministry said. The commercial satellite, named the Mugunghwa-7, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou in French Guiana, aboard a rocket made by France-based Arianespace at 7:27 p.m. (local time), said the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans consumed an average of nearly 6 gigabytes (GB) of data with their smartphones in March, data showed Tuesday, partly on the back of an increase in rate plans that offer unlimited connectivity by the country’s mobile carriers. According to the data by the Ministry of Science, ICT [...]