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IoT module LoRa: Price Dropped to under $5

<SK Telecom’s engineers are testing the performance of a LoRa base station built in Daegu city in Korea.> The price of LoRa, an IoT module that underlies SK Telecom’s IoT initiatives, dropped to under $5.00, which is almost half of LTE-M’s to be offered by others. This will allow SK Telecom to gain competitive advantage in price, helping to pave the way for expansion...

06/11/2016

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Korea ICT News

5G for 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics - 33 Times Faster than LTE

During the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, 5G pilot service will be offered by means of 8-band CA that combines 8 100MHz carriers, supporting over 10Gbps on devices - more than 33 times faster than the current LTE's maximum 300Mbps. The drastic speed improvement will make features like 360 degree realistic videos, realistic content services powered by VR and AR, etc. a reality. In additio...

06/08/2016

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Tech-Blog

SK Telecom and Global IT Leaders Gathered for TIP Meeting to Discuss Partnership in 5G

SK Telecom is hosting the first Telco Infra Project (TIP) conference, where more than 40 global IT leaders including Facebook, Nokia, Intel, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom AG, are presented, at SK Telecom T Tower in Seoul for two days (8th and 9th). A board of directors meeting was held and attended by key members of TIP such as Facebook, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, and future vision, goals, manag...

06/08/2016

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Korea ICT News

Samsung Successfully Showcases World’s First 3GPP Based Public Safety LTE Solution Prio...

Samsung Electronics today announced that it successfully demonstrated the usability and reliability of its Public Safety LTE (PS-LTE) solutions during comprehensive testing in Pyeongchang, Korea. The solution is an advanced means of communication for emergency situations. Today’s test is part of the Korean government’s official verification process for the first phase of a PS-LTE...

06/03/2016

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Korea ICT News

SK Telecom Announces 2016 1Q Earnings Results

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced its earnings on a K-IFRS consolidated basis for the first quarter of 2016: revenue of KRW 4.229 trillion, operating income of KRW 402.1 billion and net income of KRW 572.3 billion. The revenue stood at KRW 4.229 trillion, edging down 0.3% year-on-year(YoY) due to the elimination of sign-up fees and increased number of subscribers who choose contract-based...

04/28/2016

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Korea ICT News

KT's nationwide LTE-M network and IoT strategy

Before we begin.. On March 10th, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) of the South Korea announced it would adjust the output power in unlicensed 900MHz band from the current 10mW to 200mW as an effort to stimulate the emerging IoT-related industry. The big 3, fueled by the announcement, are aggressively seeking ways to deploy IoT infrastructure. On March 18, SK Telec...

04/18/2016

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Tech-Blog

Spectrum auction in April 2016 - What will be offered? How will it affect operators' se...

On March 18th, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), a ministry of South Korean government, finally revealed its plan to hold a much overdue auction for mobile spectrum at the end of April, in 2 years and 8 months after the last one in August 2013. At the auction, a total of 140 MHz (2x70 MHz) across 5 blocks will be offered. Each of the Korean big 3 operators will have a cha...

03/28/2016

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Tech-Blog

SK Telecom announces Nationwide Roll-Out of LPWA Network for IoT

Plans to invest a total of KRW 100 billion by 2017 to boost its IoT business: It will deploy LPWAN throughout the nation within this year, develop IoT-dedicated modules, and constantly upgrade its IoT Platform ThingPlug to gain leadership in the IoT market and achieve win-win results with startups and SMEs. SK Telecom announced today its comprehensive strategy for the Internet of Things (I...

03/18/2016

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Korea ICT News

Korean Government to raise Transmit Power for 900 MHz to 200 mW to promote IoT

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) of South Korea announced on the 15th that it will issue an administrative notice of a draft proposal on transmit power raise for 900 MHz (917~923.5 MHz), the most used band globally, from the current 10 mW to max 200 mW, to promote new IoT business and services. So far, the band has been used primarily for shot-range services like RFID...

03/18/2016

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Korea ICT News

UHD TV Subscriptions in Korea reached 1.2 Million, accounting for 10% of Total IPTV Sub...

UHD TV subscriptions in Korea reached 1.2 million, accounting for 10% of total IPTV subscriptions. UHD IPTV subscriptions marked steep growth, reaching 1.2 million in just one and half year since its launch in September 2014. As of February, LG U+, KT and SK Broadband, respectively, have 510,000, 480,000 and 200,000 UHD IPTV subscribers. * Satellite UHD TV (KT Skylife): 130,000 * C...

03/17/2016

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Korea ICT News

ITU-T FG on IMT-2020 approved KT's 5G Integrated Network Management Solutions

KT said on the 13th that its documents on the 5G network management solution proposed in the 5th meeting of ITU-T Focus Group on IMT-2020 (FG on IMT-2020)* were approved as draft recommendations for the world's first 5G wired and mobile integrated network management. With the approval, KT will likely continue to take the lead in global efforts for 5G standardization. The purpose of th...

03/15/2016

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Samsung to deploy the World’s First 3GPP Standard based Public Safety LTE Solution in K...

Samsung Electronics today announced that it will provide telecommunications infrastructure and devices for the Korean Public Safety network using LTE technology (PS-LTE). It is the first live PS-LTE network in the world using the 3GPP telecommunications standard. PS-LTE enables more effective communication by sharing precise emergency information in the form of real-time video streaming and hig...

02/11/2016

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Korea ICT News

SK Telecom began building Korea's First Uplink CA Network, to be commercialized in 1H 2016

On the 25th, SK Telecom released its plan to commercialize 2-band uplink carrier aggregation in the network to offer enhanced data upload speeds. In addition, the company plans to introduce other useful solutions, such as UL 64QAM* that can drastically improve upload performance and MC-PUSCH** that can make the most of existing carriers, all to achieve maximum upload speeds possible....

01/27/2016

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Korea ICT News

How the Next-Generation Mobile Core could accommodate Network Slicing

We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Thierry Van de Velde who is technology specialist in Mobile Internet networks, architecture and solutions. Thierry Van de Velde Consulting Technology Specialist at Nokia, IP & Optical Networking All Articles by...

12/24/2015

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Tech-Blog

Commercialization of inter-operator VoLTE service opens VoLTE era

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced on the 22nd that Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service developed through interworking among the Korean big 3 operators will be fully commercialized on the 23rd. MSIP, jointly with the big 3, conducted a final testing for VoLTE commercialization on the 20th. VoLTE is data-based voice call service offered via 4G LTE networks, and can...

11/22/2015

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Korea ICT News

Opening of 100% LTE - Mobile Telecommunication Businesses Finish VoLTE Linkage

Generation of 100% LTE that has data and voice-calling use LTE is finally here. Clear quality of sound that is almost identical to original sound, fast connection and new additional services are expected. Mobile telecommunication businesses also have started on developing new services in response to VoLTE, and it seems that 3G is about to be terminated real soon. According to communication...

11/11/2015

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Korea ICT News

Mobile Network Architecture for 5G Era - New C-RAN Architecture and Distributed 5G Core

It's been only a year and a half since we excitedly introduced the Evolution of Mobile RAN Architecture in LTE/LTE-A Era (C-RAN) last April. And today we are discussing the same for 5G era already. Key transitions from 3G to 4G included i) network architecture change from coverage-based to capacity-based, and ii) introduction of new 4G element, X2 interface. Specifically, cells became s...

10/06/2015

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Tech-Blog

Netvision Telecom's LTE/Wi-Fi Multipath Aggregation Solution - Instantly upgrade the pe...

About Netvision Telecom Introduction Globally, 4G LTE service has steadily gained popularity since its launch in around 2010, making smartphones the bare necessities of our everyday life. High performance smartphones equipped with new features, some with multimedia processing capability (2160p@30fps) as good as PC, are being released every year. Thanks to the popularity of such high...

10/05/2015

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Reports

LG U+ and Nokia: CA and pooling demonstration using vRAN and commercial smartphone

With 5G service scheduled to arrive in 2018, LG U+ and Nokia presented a new technology that can connect both 4G Remote Radio Head (RRH) and 5G RRH to one Digital Unit (DU), at the Nokia headquarters on the 16th. The technology is known to accelerate introduction of a next-generation base station platform, virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN). The new vRAN makes resource pooling more effic...

09/16/2015

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Korea ICT News

Mobile Subscriber Growth of China

China began 4G service back in December 2013. Today, of the nation's entire mobile service, 4G subscription has reached 17.4%, which accounts for 225 million subscribers.

07/31/2015

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