KT will lead a national project to build a 5G testbed RAN using Samsung Network’s equipment, the telco said.The network will be built in Pangyo, Daejeon, Yeongnam and Honam sequentially by 2023.The National Information Society Agency (NIA), a sub-agency under the Ministry of Science of ICT, is backi

KT Powertel said on Tuesday that it aims to secure 36 billion won in annual sales from its IoT business in 2023.The company is expecting the business contribute 8 billion won in sales in 2020.Its services include mobile data terminal, digital tacho graph and powertel positioning service.The company

Telecom equipment vendor Ace Technologies have won a new order for its remote radio heads (RRH) from a global client, the company said on Tuesday.It is its first order for RRH since 2013.The client already buys antenna filters from Ace.The South Korean company also plans to supply RRH to local clien

Samsung Electronics will began sales of the Galaxy Watch3 Titanium model in South Korea on September 18, the company said.The watch will cost 770,000 won. Samsung said it used titanium to make the watch that makes it light and durable. It also has a premium metal strap. Strap length is easy to adjus

Samsung Electronics and South Korean telcos has begun pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy Z Flip 5G.The phones will officially launch on September 18 in the country __ same as their global launch date.Samsung is offering a one year care services for the foldable smartphones.Pre-ordering cu

Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom will collaborate to standardize the virtualization process for 5G networks, the companies said.Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will also take part in the alliance.Standardizing the process will make it easier for telcos to apply virtual networks to their

Huawei was the world’s largest telecom equipment __ both wired and wireless __ vendor by a large margin in the first half of 2020, according to Dell’Oro Group.The research firm combined shares for mobile core and radio access network, broadband access, microwave and optical transport, service provid

Samsung Electronics has signed a network equipment supply deal with US’s largest carrier Verizon for 7.9 trillion won (US$6.64 billion), the company said on Monday.The deal will likely have minimal impact on Samsung Network’s sales for this year but will come in affect in 2021. The five year contrac

South Korean carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus are investing slower into their 5G networks than previous planned, TheElec has learned.KT has delayed its supply deal for 5G optical repeaters with three subcontractors by six months. The deadline was initially September but this has been pushed to M

LG Uplus is collaborating with robotics firm Future Robot to develop a 5G-connected robot that check whether people are wearing face masks, the company said on Thursday.The 5G robot will be tested at H Plus Yangji Hospital.The robot will move around autonomously within buildings to recognize faces,

The advent of hybrid working environment has put pressure on Korean IT leaders to balance flexibility, security and economic feasibility on their edge, HPE Aruba Korea business unit manager Charles Kang said on Wednesday.The company surveyed Korean companies to plan infrastructure in hybrid working

US server company Supermicro and Japanese deep learning firm Preferred Networks’ super computer MN-3 has received the top spot in Green500 testing, the companies said.MN-3 scored 21.11 gigaflops per watt on the benchmark test, Supermicro said. Green500 grades based on power efficiency. MN-3 performs

Cisco has acquired artificial intelligence software BabbleLabs, which specializes in noise reduction.The technology will be applied to remote conference app Webex, the US company said.

Sales from Open RAN will accumulate sales of up to US$5 billion in the next five years, market research firm Dell’Oro said.Virtual RAN that applies commercial off-the-shelf server on the distributed unit (DU) and central unit will account for between US$3 billion to US$5 billion, the firm said. Over

LG Uplus and partners have started an extended reality (XR) alliance to foster the business in the 5G era, the company said.LG Uplus will be the “Facilitator”, which is equivalent to the chair company, the carrier said, of the Global XR Content Telco Alliance.Canada’s Bell, Japan’s KDDI, China Telec

KT has launched its serving robot called AI Serving Robot at a Mad for Garlic restaurant in Seoul, the carrier said on Tuesday.MFG Korea, which owns the Mad for Garlic chain, will collaborate with KT to find new customer scenarios, the carrier said.New robots made based on the scenarios will be depl

Jaguar Land Rovers sold in South Korea will have SK Telecom’s T Map navigation app by default, the telco said.The app will have high precision map for Jaguar’s advanced driver assistance system and will also have features dedicated to the electric vehicle version of the Land Rover.The carrier said i

Samsung Electronics has launched a credit card that Samsung Pay users can apply for, the company said.Samsung Pay Card will allow mobile payment service users to use all their feature on the apps on the physical card. Samsung Pay has accumulated 19 million subscribers and secured 80 trillion won in

China and South Korea will roll out 5G standalone (SA) networks in the second half of 2020, market research firm Dell’O Group said.5G SA requires 5G core networks to be installed. South Korea has only so far launched non-standaline (NSA) networks, which uses control planes of core equipment of 4G LT

SK Telecom’s board approved to buy 500 billion won worth of treasury stock, the company said on Friday.The carrier owned 7.6 million share, or 9.4% stake, of its own shares prior.SK Telecom said it has been rearranging its portfolio to include media, security and commerce businesses for the past thr