SK Telecom will launch its wireless earphones, or true wireless stereo (TWC), called Nugu Buds next month, the company said on Monday.It will cost less than 100,000 won, the carrier said, claiming that it will be the most price competitive model in South Korea.Apple Airpods cost 199,000 won in the c

When 5G standalone network will be rolled out in South Korea is now in doubt after the country’s tech minister said it wasn’t thinking of providing 28GHz services for all citizens.South Korea has rolled out 5G non-standalone network last year __ in which 4G network’s control plane is used together w

Samsung Electronics’ network business will likely see its 2020 sales drop compared to 2019 despite its recent supply deal with US carrier Verizon.Samsung Network was internally discussing its 2021 sales target to be similar to that of 2019, people familiar with the matter said.The supply to Verizon

The UK’s largest telco BT will use Nokia’s equipment to replace those of Huawei.The Finnish telecom equipment giant will now become the largest supplier of equipment to the telco, replacing its Chinese rival.BT currently uses Huawei and Nokia’s equipment at around a two to one ratio. Nokia last mont

Telecom equipment and component maker Gigalane has begun mass supply of antenna and filters for base stations to Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.The company’s factory in Vietnam was approved to supply by Samsung Network in January. Gigalane supplied its initial batch to the South Korean tec

KT led AI One Team, an industry alliance of companies collaborating in artificial intelligence (AI) services, has shared their achievements of the past six months at their own summit on Friday, the telco said.AI One Team started with KT, Hyundai Heavy Group, KAIST, Hanyang University and Electronics

Samsung Electronics has supplied Verizon with its 5G in-building small cell called Link Cell, the company said.The cells will expand the US carrier’s 28GHz 5G coverage in commercial buildings and crowded areas such as offices, factories, shopping centers and stadiums.Verizon is also testing small ce

Samsung Electronics has launched the wireless charging trio wireless charger that can charge three devices at the same time, the company said.It also launched the PD Battery Pack 20,000mAh secondary battery.The charge has six coils internally and the three devices can be charged at various areas of

Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping said the company has sufficient semiconductor stock for telecom base stations in a press conference at Huawei Connect 2020.This is the first official confirmation that Huawei has stocked up semiconductors last year in preparation for US sanctions.US’s sanction on

SK Telecom has claimed that 3.5GHz spectrum and non-standalone 5G networks were also “real 5G.”Park Jong-kwan, the head of the telco’s 5GX technology group was rebutting claims that 28GHz, mmWaves were the true 5G at an online conference.28GHz and standalone were suitable for business-to-business ap

Samsung Electronics announced that it has verified 5G networking slicing technology with Japanese telco KDDI on Wednesday.The test proved that its network slicing technology could allow services to move back and forth with the ultra-fast virtual network and the ultra-low latency virtual network stab

LG Uplus has sold the first 1,000 units of its augmented reality (AR) glass U+ Real Glass, the carrier said.The glass was made by Chinese start-up Nreal, which was founded in 2017.LG Uplus compared the success to those of US company Magic Leap’s though it didn’t mention the company by name.The carri

Keysight Technologies has launched a new radar target simulator and Ethernet software for application in the automobile sector.Radars are expected to be installed more on automobiles going forward. According to IHS Markit, automobile radars market will contract 20% this year compared to 2019 due to

Finnish telecom giant Nokia was the global top in telecom software and services last year, according research by Analysys Mason.The firm said the global telecom software and services market in 2019 grew about 1% to $66.9 billion, with Nokia’s share coming in at approximately $4.5 billion.Analysys Ma

KT, Hyundai Motor Group and Incheon Airport Corporation will collaborate to create an urban air mobility (UAM) map.KT and its partners will co-develop and unmanned aerial system traffic management system so that vehicles on the ground and various drones on the air can be synced together.Hyundai Moto

LG Uplus will collaborate with Google Cloud in 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) to find new global business opportunities, the company CEO has said.CEO Ha Hyun-hwoi the partnership will secure the best MEC technologies and use it to find new 5G services for both the consumer space and the enterprise.G

Ericsson has launched the Cloud Native Ericsson Packet Core Firewall for 5G core network security.The solution will be in modular form with A10 Networks’ technology and can be attached on the gateway of core networks.Previous firewalls required a hardware component along with the software.But Ericss

LG Uplus will launch an autonomous robot with 5G connectivity and real time kinematic technology that will be used to inspect factories, the telco said.The robot has been tested at oil refinery run by Hyundai Oilbank.It will use a thermal imaging camera to check to temperatures of equipment in facto

Keysight Technologies Korea country manager Junho Choi said on Thursday that the company has over 50 years of research in mmWave.Research in mmWave when the company was part of Hewlett-Packard and the firm’s headquarters of Santa Rosa is considered the Mecca of mmWave, Choi said on the online confer

KT will launch AI robot pets aimed to assist children and senior citizens, the company said.It will collaborate with Stage Five, Nuwa Robotics and Ashoka Korea will collaborate on the project.State Five, a subsidiary of Kakao, will focus on contents on the pets. Nuwa will work on the hardware and so