LG Uplus said the number of people subscribing to its Augmented Reality (AR) app U+AR has doubled in six months.The carrier said the accumulated number of those who subscribed increased by 103% as of June compared to December of last year.The company currently offers 2,200 AR contents on the app. It

LG Uplus has formed a task force to respond to South Korean government’s so-called “New Deal” economic policy, TheElec has learned.The task force was been overseen directly by company CEO and vice chairman Ha Hyun-hwoi, people familiar with the matter said. The response was considered slower than ri

Huawei has reduced its sales goal for this year in India by more than half, reports The Economic Times.The Chinese telecom equipment giant has reduced its initial goal of between US$700 million to US$800 million to as low as US$350 million, according to the Times.Huawei reportedly posted US$1.2 bill

SK Telecom has launched an augmented reality (AR) guide app for a South Korean heritage site, the company on Monday.The app, dubbed ARirang, can be turned on at ChangDeokGoong Palace in Seoul. Users can use the smartphone camera to view locations within the palace and a character based on South Kore

US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the auction of 3.5GHz spectrum for 5G networks.The FCC said it was its first spectrum auction for a mid-band.The spectrum will be shared via Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) and the winner will get priority access licenses (PAL).FCC will au

LG Uplus has developed network slicing technology that can be used in wired networks ahead of the commercialization of 5G standalone (SA) network in South Korea.The carrier has completed the development of core equipment and base stations for 5G SA networks, and with the addition of the latest netwo

The initial rate of increase in 5G subscribers was around two years faster than it was for 4G LTE, Ericsson said in its Mobility Report 2020.The Swedish telecom equipment giant expects 5G subscribers to hit 190 million by the end of the year. This is slightly lower than 4G subscribers in 2013, four

South Korea’s SK Telecom and US’s HPE has formed a mobile edge computing (MEC) consortium to sell related technology to global telcos, the companies announced.SK Telecom will handle the MEC software while HPE will oversee the hardware as well as infrastructure, local sales and maintenance.The consor

South Korean repeater maker FRTek is supplying US carrier Verizon with 5G repeaters for 28GHz and 39GHz spectrum, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Friday.It was unheard of for a mid-sized company with revenues of around 20 billion won to supply Verizon directly, at least in South Kore

Indian telco Jio will begin investment into 5G network next year.The carrier will go into trial right away once 5G spectrum are allocated and it will prepare for filed deployment next year, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industry, Jio’s parent firm, said at its annual shareholders’ meeting on W

CommScope has launched new Wi-Fi 6 access points (AP) in South Korea.It now offers six models in total: AP RUCKUS 750 (R750) as well as AP R850, R650 and R550. It also launched the outdoor models AP T750 and T750SE.R650 and T750 were launched in the first quarter, and R550 and R850 in the second qua

Samsung Electronics expects six-generation (6G) communication to be commercialized in 2028, the company said in a white paper on Tuesday.6G services will go mainstream in 2030, Samsung said. 5G was commercialized in April of last year.According to the white paper, 6G will have 50 times the peak data

Samsung Electronic’ network business boss Jeon Kyung-hoon has visited South Korean repeater maker Solid late last month to discuss their collaboration for customer KDDI and open RAN, TheElec confirmed on Tuesday.Japanese telco KDDI is a major customer of Samsung Network. The South Korean company has

Huawei posted 454 billion yuan (77.6 trillion won) in first half sales __ an increase of 13.1% year over year, the company said on Tuesday.Its net margin rate for the same time period was 9.2%, the Chinese tech giant said.Its consumer business contributed 255.8 billion yuan, its carrier business 159

KT has developed a 5G network slicing service aimed at business clients, the company said on Tuesday.The telco has wrapped up the technological development and verification for the service, it said.It will allow physical 5G networks to be separated into multiple virtual ones. It will be applied to c

Samsung Electronics will launch a new full-virtualized 5G Radio Access Network (vRAN) solution within the third quarter of the year, the company said.The company’s 5G vRAN consists of a virtualized Central Unit (vCU), a virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU), and a wide range of radio units to enable a

Sales of Samsung Electronics’ network business in the first half of 2020 will be 70% of what it was a year ago, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.This is due to the COVID-19 pandemic that delayed 5G investment plans of telcos, they said, with South Korean telcos postponing their 5G inve

SK Telecom has won an award from Small Cell Forum (SCF) for its 4G, 5G dual mode RF repeater, the company said.The South Korean telco won the Commercial Small Cell Design & Technology category at SCF Small Cell Awards 2020.The repeaters are used to amplify signals to expand coverage in buildings, tu

Business-to-business (B2B) will be central to 5G networks unlike previous mobile communication that focused on consumers, KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo has said.Speaking at an online keynote speech for GTI Summit 2020, Ku said operators needed to focus on the B2B sector when it comes to 5G. There will be explo

South Korean repeater maker Solid is eyeing to win London Underground’s network building project, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The Tube has been testing 4G LTE networks on some part of its Jubilee line since March. It will decide who will run the project within the third quarter,