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

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. SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics agreed to cooperate mainly to share 5G vision with standardization groups and...

10/20/2014

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SK Telecom, Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrie...

SK Telecom, Ericsson and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate LTE-Advanced Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation on Commercial Network. Speeds of up to 300 Mbps achieved with LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation, using three separate and discrete bands Technical achievement enables operators to implement performance improvements across the LTE coverage area Ericsson, SK Telecom and Qualc...

10/16/2014

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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (2) - Inter-cell Coordination Evolution Strategy

2. Inter-cell Coordination Evolution Strategies CA improves network capacity by broadening frequency bandwidth, whereas inter-cell coordination technologies do the same task by enhancing frequency efficiency. Inter-cell coordination is designed to manage radio resources more efficiently by having cells in different sites share user and/or cell information with each other. Inter-cell coo...

10/13/2014

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SK Telecom and Samsung Electronics jointly developed ‘True Real-Time Mobile Streaming T...

Demonstrated ‘True Real Time Mobile Streaming Technology’ applied with the next generation media transport standard on commercial LTE network for the first time in the world Successfully reduce live video streaming latency on mobile networks by 80 percent Plan to jointly promote global standardization and commercialize the technology within 2015 SK Telecom today announced th...

10/10/2014

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SK Telecom's RAN Evolution Strategy

10/09/2014

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SK Telecom's Network Evolution Strategies (1): Carrier Aggregation Evolution Strategy

SK Telecom is the #1 mobile operator in Korea, with sales of KRW 16.6 trillion (USD 15.3 billion) in 2013, and with 50.1% of a mobile mobile subscription market share in 2Q 2014. It launched LTE service back in July 2011, and now more than half of its subscribers are LTE service subscribers, with 55.8% of LTE penetration as of 2Q 2014. Due to LTE subscription growth, more advanced device feat...

10/07/2014

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Korea Communication Review, October 2014

10/06/2014

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Korean big 3 telcos offer hassle-free and instant upgrade to Giga-class Internet withou...

In the past two years, some new technologies have been introduced in Korea, apparently increasing broadband Internet speeds 3~5 times faster, from 100 Mbps to 300~500 Mbps, instantly. It certainly is fascinating in that such speed improvement was achieved without the hassle of re-cabling construction in apartment buildings. Because 100 Mbps had seemed unbeatable for almost a decade, this sure w...

09/18/2014

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LTE RAN Architecture: Cell site and LTE BS, B/F-Hauling, Coordination, Comparison and C...

08/06/2014

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Korea Communication Review, July 2014

07/04/2014

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LTE in Korea UPDATE - May 1, 2014

06/02/2014

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Netmanias Interview with HFR - Fronthaul Solutions for LTE/LTE-A C-RAN (Cloud RAN)

HFR is probably most known as a vendor of wired/wireless network equipment like Mobile fronthaul, Carrier Ethernet, FTTx, etc. Today, we are going to hear from Dr. J.H. Lee ([email protected]), CTO of HFR about one of its most popular solutions, flexiHaulTM, a mobile optical access solution. 1. Welcome! Thank you for being with us. Can you tell us a little bit about HFR first?...

05/27/2014

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Evolution of Mobile RAN Architecture in LTE/LTE-A Era (C-RAN)

1. Traditional RAN Architecture and Issues 1.1 Issue No. 1: Degraded service quality and network performance due to inter-cell interference 1.2 Issue No. 2: Increased costs of building and operating cell sites 2. Degradation of service quality and network performance due to inter-cell interference: Prevented by reducing X2 distance 3. Costs of building and operating cell sites: Reduced...

04/16/2014

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SK Telecom: LTE Fronthaul and Backhaul Architecture

Also see this excellent animation produced by SK Telecom (Source: HFR)

02/04/2014

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LTE in Korea 2013

Table of Content 1. Korea, the Most advanced LTE Market in the World 2. LTE deployment status by operator in Korea (SK Telecom, KT, LG U+) 3. LTE frequency commercialization status in Korea 4. LTE services: Mobile broadband, Mobile IPTV and VoLTE 5. LTE equipements deployed in Korea 6. LTE devices 7. LTE patents 1. Korea, the Most Advanced LT...

12/04/2013

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LTE Frequency commercialization status in Korea (Nov. 2013)

12/02/2013

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Mobile IPTV Services in Korea: Live TV Streaming (2013 Q3)

10/07/2013

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Summary of SK Telecom's Mobile IPTV Live Streaming (Full HD/HD/SD over LTE-A)

SK Telecom, the Korean No. 1 telecom operator, launched Btv Mobile service (in SD/HD) offering a variety of live broadcasting and VoD contents for mobile devices in around July 2012. And a year later in July 2013, boosted by the commercialization of LTE-A, it began a "Full HD" streaming service with drastically enhanced video quality. The following is the press release by SK Telecom about its n...

09/24/2013

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