Three Common Carriers invest KRW 2 Trillion in Q4, LTE Competition Intensifying

11/03/2014 | By KIM YONG-JOO

The three common carriers will continue to invest in facilities by over KRW 2 trillion in the fourth quarter. For this, LTE and giga Internet are forecast to be the key points of competition.

SK Telecom and Ericsson Develop Smart Wake-Up Technology

10/30/2014 | By NETMANIAS

SK Telecom today announced that the company, together with Ericsson, the world-renowned telecommunications technology and service provider, are the first to develop Smart Wake-up, a technology that dynamically wakes up small cells when traffic enters the cell, improving operational efficiency and user experience.

KT launched GiGA Internet, Korea's First Nationwide Gigabit Internet Service on Oct. 20

10/27/2014 | By NETMANIAS

KT is about to finally open 1 Gbps home Internet speed era, after a long period of speed stagnation at 100 Mbps - for more than 10 years since its 100 Mbps cyber apartment Entopia LAN service commercialization in early 2000, and 7 years since its 100 Mbps FTTH service launch in 2007.

SK Telecom publishes White Paper on 5G Technology

10/21/2014 | By NETMANIAS

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company published a white paper on 5G to suggest new direction for technological evolution to 5G, the next generation mobile communications network.

WIS 2014 to unveil Next-Generation ICT Technologies, will suggest Direction for Global ICT Industry

10/21/2014 | By KIM WON-BAE

Korea unveiled next-generation ICT technologies for 5G mobile communications, digital hologram and giga Internet products and services as the first in the world and set out to secure the future ICT industry leadership.

SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics Join Hands to Lead 5G Network Technology

10/20/2014 | By NETMANIAS

SK Telecom today announced that the company and Samsung Electronics will team up to lead 5G network, the next generation mobile communications technology, on October 20, 2014. The two companies signed a MOU to start joint research on 5G network technology and service development.

LG U+ demonstrated the World's First ‘LTE-Unlicensed’ capable of 300 Mbps, and aims to commercialize in 2H 2015

10/18/2014 | By NETMANIAS

On October 16, LG U+ announced that it successfully demonstrated a new technology 'LTE-U' (LTE in Unlicensed spectrum) that can give transmission speeds of up to four times faster than the current LTE for the first time in the world.

SK Telecom, Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation on Commercial Network

10/16/2014 | By NETMANIAS

Ericsson, SK Telecom and Qualcomm Technologies, successfully demonstrated live LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrier aggregation in SK Telecom’s commercial network, achieving downlink speeds of up to 300 Mbps. The demonstration combined three separate bands of 10 MHz, 10 MHz and 20 MHz bandwidth.

Samsung Electronics sets 5G Speed Record at 7.5Gbps, over 30 Times Faster than 4G LTE

10/15/2014 | By NETMANIAS

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd today announced two industry first milestones in the development of 5G telecommunications networking technology, as the company clocked 7.5Gbps, or 940MB per second, the fastest-ever 5G data transmission rate while in a stationary environment.

DASAN Networks Showcases the Worlds fastest 10G Internet Service at ITU-PP

10/10/2014 | By NETMANIAS

DASAN Networks has announced that it has successfully presented its 10G Internet service using SK Broadband’s service network at BEXCO, Busan in front of the ICT Ministers and field experts on the 20th of October.

SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics jointly developed ‘True Real-Time Mobile Streaming Technology’

10/10/2014 | By NETMANIAS

SK Telecom today announced that the company, together with Samsung Electronics, successfully completed development of ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming’ technology that is essential for mobile live streaming and achieved its world’s first demonstration over commercial LTE network.

KT to Initiate Cooperation with Leading ICT Companies in Asia for IoT Project

10/08/2014 | By NETMANIAS

KT as Korea’s national telecommunications provider, has embarked on cooperating with mobile carriers in Asia on the Internet of Things (IoT).