News tagged: SK Telecom

16 October, 2020

Digitally connected communities: Creating a new society

One consequence of our rapidly changing world has been an explosion of seemingly endless essential systems and services. (more…)

02 June, 2020

Quantifying the global 5G experience across 10 operators

Understanding the extent to which 5G improves the mobile experience is critical both for consumers considering upgrading to 5G and also for the mobile industry that’s planning how quickly to invest in 5G. Opensignal has looked at how the 5G experience compares in four countries — Australia, South Korea, the U.S. and the U.K. — across 10 5G operators that all launched 5G well over six months ago, says Ian Fogg, VP analysis at Opensignal. (more…)

03 March, 2020

MobiledgeX extends edge computing support to the enterprise with platform update

MobiledgeX, Inc. has released MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud R2.0 for the enterprise edge. This enables private and public edge cloud integration to allow developers to deploy location-specific services. (more…)

14 February, 2020

5G tipping point: Industry and consumers lured with cheaper, smarter services

Ericsson landed on its corporate feet when it parachuted out of the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress last Friday. For the last few years, the network solutions provider has (like Huawei and a few others) hosted Pre-MWC Briefings for media and analysts in key markets, in an attempt to catch attention ahead of the pandemonium in Barcelona.  (more…)

29 November, 2019

Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core chosen to strengthen SK Telecom’s 5G network

Ericsson was selected to deliver a Cloud Packet Core for SK Telecom’s 5G network. Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core, part of the company’s Cloud Core portfolio, helps service providers to smoothly migrate to 5G Core (5GC) stand-alone architecture. (more…)

25 November, 2019

Roaming of people and things: How operators can get value from 5G

Is 5G worthy of the hype? We’ve seen commercial deployments (in trial and in reality) this year, says Mikaël Schachne, chief marketing officer and vice president of mobility and IoT at BICS, including a significant one from China earlier this month in which all three of the country’s state-backed operators roll out the new mobile service. (more…)

20 September, 2019

Monetising 5G calls for reinvention … And the time to start is now – Part two

These days, we are witnessing many telcos preparing for the next generation of mobile communications, putting a lot of hope into the promise of growth offered by 5G technology. However, there are still numerous opportunities for growth to exploit today, offering a significant promise for telcos’ business. (more…)

22 March, 2019

Ericsson and SK Telecom team up on cloud native 5G core

A three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the companies focuses on possible enhancements and optimisation enabled by cloud native micro-services-based principles. (more…)

13 December, 2018

Ericsson, SK Telecom and Qualcomm collaborate to break 5G barriers

Under the 5G agreement, Ericsson will provide SKT with 5G New Radio (NR) radio, baseband, and Ericsson Network Management systems for its 5G commercial network launch. (more…)

29 August, 2018

The top 5 ‘most promising’ 5G operators revealed by Juniper Research

A new study from Juniper Research has found that with the first 5G networks launching in 2019, total connections will scale rapidly to 1.5 billion by 2025, with initial growth driven by fixed wireless access to replace or complement current broadband connectivity. (more…)