KT is launching a new Wi-Fi 6 standard router aimed at the home, the company said on Wednesday.Router maker Mercury is providing the routers.Called GiGA WiFi Home ax, or GWH ax, the routers will go on sale on August 31 and have a data processing speed of 1.2Gbps.KT’s previous home router had a speed

KT is launching Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live wireless earphones exclusively in red, the company said on Tuesday.The company is also the only one providing the Galaxy Note20 in red color in South Korea.

SK Telecom is upgrading the fronthaul standard on its 5G network, TheElec has learned.Starting sometime in the first half of 2020, the telco has began upgrading its common public radio interface (CPRI) fronthaul standard to Ethernet-based CPRI, or eCPRI on equipment made by Samsung and Ericsson.Upgr

Ace Technologies is taking part in the contract making project given by a global telecom equipment maker based in Europe, TheElec has learned.The South Korean telecom component maker was chosen as a joint development manufacturer, or JDM, by the European telecom equipment maker late last year as wel

Huawei has installed a pilot base stations that has 5G super uplink and downlink carrier aggregation technology applied in China, the company said on Monday.5G super uplink uses time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) methods together.Carrier aggregation, as it name suggests,

SK Telecom said Sunday that its blockchain-based authentication app Initial has been synced with Samsung’s counterpart Samsung Blockchain Keystore.It will make the carrier app, a decentralized identifier service, even safer, the carrier claimed.Personal key will be saved on Samsung’s keystore in Sam

South Korean carrier KT has been chosen to lead South Korea’s free public Wi-Fi project, the carrier and the Ministry of Science and ICT said.The company will install 10,000 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11az) based access points within the year.Around 18 billion won has been earmarked for the project.In total, KT w

Israeli X-Ray start-up Nanox listed on NASDAQ on Friday.SK Telecom, which instead US$23 million to the company and is the second-largest shareholder of the start-up with 2.6 million shares, secured 11.5 billion won from the listing in the first day.Nanox’s share price rose 20.56% to be worth US$21.7

KT has opened a data center in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent to monitor electricity use, the company said.The data center will collect data from 8 million smart meters that will be installed nationwide, the telco said.KT will provide support in managing the data center for the next two years.The cen

India’s three major carriers are moving away from using telecom equipment from Huawei and ZTE from the rising tension between India and China.The void caused by the absence of these Chinese companies will likely benefit Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia more than it does Samsung Electronics, peo

KT will allow consumers use its mobile identification card when they are subscribing to its services, the telco said.Potential subscribers can download the mobile payment authentication app Pass, and download their own mobile driver’s license. This will be accepted at KT stores as a legitimate ident

Aruba, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has built a software-defined network SDN at Seoul National University’s campus, the company said.The company built the network using its Wi-Fi 6-based Aruba AP515 access point at Siheung Campus of the university.Aruba synced its Aruba 7240XM control

SK Telecom said it has applied its quantum security technology on a banking app, on Thursday.IM Bank app run by DGB Daegu Bank, when paired with Samsung Galaxy A Quantum smartphones, will have the technology, the telco said.The QRNG, or quantum random number generator, chip on the smartphone will cr

Samsung Electronics was developing 28GHz 5G small cell to supply to US carrier Verizon, TheElec has confirmed.The cells will be made using Qualcomm’s 5G chipset, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.Samsung’s network business has previously supplied 4G small cells to the US carrier, made

KT and Woori Financial Group will collaborate on digital finance businesses that can be done remotely, the companies aid on Wednesday.The two conglomerates are co-owners of internet bank K Bank.KT’s IT technology will be applied to Woori’s current services that are done face-to-face and at close qua

KT has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) based energy management service aimed at unmanned stores, the telco said Wednesday.It will first applied to vending machines in unmanned stores operated by start-up Phase Commu.Data collected from temperature sensors within the machines will be stored

Huawei has enough semiconductor chips used in telecom base stations in its inventory to last years, TheElec has learned.Due to this, US sanctions will have only limited impact on the business compared to its smartphone operation that has recently halted the development of their own application proce

LG Uplus has applied its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that automatically readjust antenna angles in 5G base stations, the telco said.The technology has been applied in Seoul and Kangwon Province. It will be expanded to nationwide going forward, LG said.

SK Telecom said the artificial intelligence (AI) speakers it has provided to senior citizen for assistance have helped increase their daily activities.The telco has provided the speakers to some 4,700 senior citizens as of late July. They talk to them and helped them with calls.The seniors traveled

Telecom component maker KMW posted 204.7 billion won in sales for the first half of 2020, with Nokia and ZTE accounting for 77% of that.Meanwhile, long time customer Samsung Electronics only accounted for 5% of sales, according to the company’s filings to South Korean financial regulators on Tuesday