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SK Telecom wins the Right to establish World’s First LTE-R Business

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Busan won the right to start ‘Busan Number 1 Line Subway Wireless Facility Purchase and Installment’ business that received attention as world’s first LTE-R. SK Telecom can occupy advantageous position in expansion of LTE-R throughout Korea and foreign LTE-R businesses and Public Safety-LTE business. Busan Transportation Corporation announced on the 13th that it has selected...

07/14/2015

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Commercialization Status of LTE-LTE and LTE-WiFi Carrier Aggregation in Korea (June 30,...

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here

07/10/2015

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KT's GiGA Wire approved as an International Standard at ITU-T Meeting

KT announced on the 10th that its GiGA Wire technology, a telephone line-based Internet technology, was recently approved as an international standard at an ITU-T meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland. Technologies developed in accordance with international standards and applied accordingly are registered as official Technical Paper if approved by ITU-T. So, the approval of GiGA Wire tech...

07/10/2015

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Samsung and Qualcomm are feeling out about Working Together again for Next-Gen Galaxy S7?

Samsung Electronics is examining again whether to work with Qualcomm again for development of premium Smartphones. Samsung Electronics applied its Exynos rather than Qualcomm’s Application Processor (AP) into Galaxy S6. There are a lot of interests circling around Samsung Electronics as it is confirmed that it is considering using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon for Galaxy S7 that will be sho...

07/10/2015

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Korea Communication Review, Q3 2015

Table of Content LG U+ achieved 600 Mbps in its Second LTE-U Demonstration We had a chance to discuss with a member of LG U+ Access Network Development Team who conducted the LTE-U demonstration last month. Below we will briefly review what we learned from him about their LTE-U demonstration, target areas, and commercialization plan, one at a time....

07/10/2015

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Evolution of SK Telecom’s in-building LTE solutions

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here As of April 2015, SK Telecom's mobile data traffic accounts for 44% of the entire mobile traffic in Korea (See Figure 1). Since the launch of LTE service, the company has experienced rapid growth of mobile traffic - more than tenfold from 5.7 PB in June 2011 (right before LTE service launch) to...

07/09/2015

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KT demoed Dual Connectivity - Data Transmission Speeds and Base Station Capacity boosted

Now operators can boost both data transmission speeds and transmission reliability by having data transmitted from two LTE base stations at the same time. KT announced on the 8th that it successfully demonstrated an interworking technology between base stations called Dual Connectivity in partnership with Ericsson. Previously, base stations could interwork with each other only in the ways...

07/08/2015

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SK Telecom’s Indoor LBS Platform Wizturn Applied to Kyobo Book Center

K Telecom today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK Telecom’s home-grown beacon-based...

07/07/2015

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4K UHD VoD contents provided by Korean Big 3 Telco (June 30, 2015)

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here

07/02/2015

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Quick Guide to OSPF: Part 2. Redistributing External Network Routes into OSPF Network

Quick Guide to OSPF 1. Building Shortest Path Tree Topology ► 2. Redistributing External Network Routes into OSPF Network In the previous post, we explained the procedure of how routers create their network topology maps using Router-LSA messages in an OSPF network, and build the shortest path trees based on link costs. Below, we will see how OSPF routers learn the routing informat...

07/01/2015

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Tech-Blog

Korea Telco Market 2015

For the rest of the Q3 2015 issue of Korea Communication Review magazine please click here

06/30/2015

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KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (4): 4K UHD VoD

KT IPTV (4K UHD) Service (1) UHD Live TV (2) 'Most Popular Channels Now' (9-Channel View) (3) 4-channel View (4) UHD VoD Success or failure of UHD service lies in how much UHD contents the service provided can offer. Being well aware of that, KT has gradually secured more contents, for example, through upscaling of Full HD movies to UHD quality (e.g. 'The Admiral: Roarin...

06/30/2015

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Tech-Blog

LG U+'s new services: 'LTE Video Portal' and 'Home IoT'

After 4 years of providing LTE service, LG U+ presented the world's first integrated video streaming service ‘LTE Video Portal' and a new IoT solution 'Home IoT Service' at a press conference held at its Yongsan headquarters on the 29th. At the conference, LG U+ Vice President Sang- chul Lee revealed his ambitious plans, stating: "With LTE Video Portal, LG U+ will...

06/29/2015

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SK Telecom-Nokia Networks successfully verify Key Enabling Technology for 5G Core Network

SK Telecom-Nokia Networks Successfully Verify Key Enabling Technology for 5G Core Network Successfully verified core technology for ‘hybrid network architecture’ optimized for massive data transmission, laying a foundation to achieve early commercialization of 5G Opened ‘5G R&D Center’ to jointly study and develop key 5G technologies Plan to establish a test bed wit...

06/29/2015

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Netmanias Media Kit 2015

06/26/2015

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Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom to jointly develop SDN PoC for LTE Core Network

Samsung Electronics announced on the 25th that it will partner with SK Telecom, to develop a Software Defined Networking (SDN) proof of concept (PoC) for an LTE Core Network. Both companies have recently announced their plans to develop virtualized, software-based networking solutions. SDN is one of the hottest, and most interested next generation technologies, and many global players have...

06/25/2015

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A Generation Where ‘GiGA Internet is connected through a Phone Line’ Is starting…There...

A Generation where GiGA speed Internet is used through a copper landline is starting. It is predicted that this technology is rapidly developing due to preparation of standard for global technologies. It is forecasted that Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) service, which takes up 9% of all internet subscribers, will be changed rapidly. It is also predicted that GiGA Korea that...

06/24/2015

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World's First Inter-Carrier VoLTE Service available in November

Korea, which presented the world's first VoLTE service in 2012, is now getting ready to present the world's first inter-carrier VoLTE service in November. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (MSIP) announced on the 17th that the Korean big 3 mobile carriers would participate in a trial VoLTE service at the end of June, and gradually expand it until the service is fully lau...

06/23/2015

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SK Telecom-Ericsson successfully demonstrate 5G Small Cell with Ultra-Low Inter-Cell In...

5G small cell system supports higher performance compared to LTE by removing inter-cell interference based on a new 5G radio _frame architecture Plan to open a 5G testbed at SK Telecom’s Bundang Building within this year SK Telecom today announced that it, together with Ericsson, successfully demonstrated an innovative 5G small cell system that offers much higher data rates than LT...

06/23/2015

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LTE success story in Korea- presentation for Iran (June 2015)

06/18/2015

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