South Korea makes 6GHz band available for Wi-Fi
The unlicensed 6GHz band will offer download speed of up to 2.1Gbps, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.
The unlicensed 6GHz band will offer download speed of up to 2.1Gbps, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.
The government plans to install 41,000 free public Wi-Fi access points by 2022.
South Korea's largest carrier will end 2G services to better utilise spectrum resources.
Around 23,000 buses operating within South Korean cities will have Wi-Fi installed onto them by December.
SK Telecom and Nokia successfully reduced latency between handsets and base station to 2 milliseconds over its LTE network as it draws closer to under 1 millisecond for 5G.
Samsung and SK Telecom officially launched Korea's first LTE-Railway (LTE-R) service on the 41 kilometer Busan Metro Line 1.
The South Korean electronics giant used Mission Critical PTT (MCPTT) technology to successfully trial seamless video streaming on a PS-LTE network.
SK Telecom and Verizon, the largest wireless telcos of South Korea and the US, respectively, will co-develop technical specifications for 5G standards and conduct joint studies.
The company has won orders to build the 'world's first' public safety network using LTE technology with 3GPP standards.
South Korea's largest mobile carrier has said that once its 5G networks are running, it will be able to transfer holograms.