Cho Mu-hyun is based in Seoul, South Korea and covers global tech conglomerates Samsung, LG and technology news in Asia. His English name is Joe and it rhymes with his last name.
Seoul and SK Telecom's planned intelligent transportation systems will use 5G sensors to warn cars of jaywalkers and pave the way for ambulances, they said.
SK Telecom and Pohang University of Science and Technology have developed an antenna control technology that increases call quality in ultra-high 28GHz spectrum in 5G.
KT has developed a reader for cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) that will allow autonomous vehicles to detect passersby and traffic signals.
SK Telecom, Hyundai Construction Equipment, and Trimble will collaborate to use 5G for the development of solutions to remote construction equipment monitoring, real-time safety management, and AI-based construction operations.
South Korea's self-developed telecommunication technology WiBro will go officially extinct within the year 2018.
KT has developed an artificial intelligence solution that can detect telecommunication failures.
SK Telecom and Samsung will collaborate in 5G research and development, including in augmented reality, as rollout in the enterprise gears up for next month.
5G will unlock the potential of artificial intelligence, Samsung's network boss says, and the South Korean tech giant will invest $22 billion in the next-generation network to secure 20 percent market share by 2020.
Samsung will turn in its second 5G standard to the ITU in December next year, which will pave the way for connected cars and smart factories.
Samsung and SK Telecom have developed a prototype 5G switchboard based on the standalone standard that will boost data processing speed by nearly twice as much when compared to non-standalone.