Korean mobile carrier KT to commercialize 5G network services in March 2019. Samsung and Intel parts suppliers.

The 5G platform will be based on end-to-end (E2E) Orchestrator, a network virtualization control system, which will manage KT’s 5G network from core equipment to base stations to devices in real time.

The platform will be essential to providing 5G-based autonomous driving, immersive media and internet of things services, the company said. 

“E2E Orchestrator can be flexibly converted for different uses according to changing demand for services, which boasts high efficiency and provides a great variety of 5G services for consumers,” the company said. 

KT is planning to implement connected car, smart factory and drone services by using the platform. 

At a press conference in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, on Thursday, KT demonstrated a multi-play virtual reality game based on the 5G network, dubbed “Special Force VR,” co-developed by game firm Dragonfly. 

Players in Gwanghwamun were connected with other players in Sinchon, northwestern Seoul, via KT’s 5G network to play the game in real time. 

“KT will perfectly deliver the promise made to the world at the PyeongChang Olympics,” said KT’s network business head Oh Seong-mok. “KT will start providing perfect 5G services in March 2019 based on our technologies and know-how that have been built up.” 

For the past three years, KT applied for more than 100 patents for preparations of pilot 5G services for the Olympics. And it has secured core technologies for the 5G network, it said.

Major parts of the KT-led PyeongChang 5G specifications in cooperation with Samsung Electronics, Intel and other global equipment vendors were adopted by 3GPPas non-standalone standards in December. 

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Asia: KT from South Korea named operator for a submarine cable to connect 9 asian countries.

Asia: KT from South Korea named operator for a submarine cable to connect 9 asian countries.

KT`s network division has been named as the chief operator of a monitoring center for a submarine cable of 9600 kilometers, linking 9 Asian countries, dubbed the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG).

The network operation center (NOC) for the cable, which will connect Korea to Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries. The cable is due to be laid by the end of 2014.

One of the key advantages of the new cable is that it will give Asian countries a more efficient method to route traffic to North America amid an explosive growth in demands for data-heavy devices ranging from smartphones to tablets.

“We won the deal thanks to our expertise and proven track record in submarine cable management,” said KT spokesman Seung-hyuck Jeong.

Jeong said under the agreement, KT, led by CEO Lee Suk-chae, will fix potential systemic errors and control disasters. “That literally means that KT will play the role as the ‘control tower’ for the cable,” said the spokesman.

In a statement, KT said the controls to be used for the submarine cable were certified on September 6.

“KT is the industry’s first to receive the authorization in that segment, meaning our solutions are ideally-positioned to handle this business,” added the spokesman.

KT has been active in boosting its investment to the project as it believes that the cable will pave the way for the firm to grow its content business, which KT identified as one of its new cash generators.

“Our investment in this cable project will significantly help diversify the corporate business portfolio with generating profit from non-telecom business,” he said.

The APG project is being managed in the form of a consortium.

Joining China Telecom and China Unicom are a number of other Asia Pacific-based telecom companies including China Mobile, Chunghwa Telecom, NTT DoCoMo, LG Uplus, Vietnamese Posts & Telecom Group, Viettel, TOT Public, CAT Telecom Public and StarHub. The length of the cable is set to be 9,600 kilometers.

KT is cutting its reliance on the saturated local telecom market by shifting its focus to promising and lucrative solution-related business areas.

Among major carriers in Korea, which include the market leader SK Telecom, KT is the furthest in overseas projects. 

SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus started the sales of the Samsung Galaxy SIII LTE,today.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs. 

SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus started the sales of  the Samsung Galaxy SIII LTE, today.

The three domestic mobile carriers  SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus  started sales of the LTE version, today Monday July 9. 

SK Telecom started sales of the third generation (3G) model last month, but industry officials expect the main sales battle between telecommunications firms to start with the LTE handset as most subscribers are jumping ship to the new network.

The marketing feud between the three and their heavy investment in building nationwide LTE networks have cost billions of won and market analysts speculate that their numbers for the second quarter maybe the worst ever.

Company representatives expect the release of the Galaxy S3 will increase revenue for the second half of the year until other new products from domestic electronics firms Pantech and LG Electronics are released in the fall to further boost earnings.

Samsung have a yet to name a sequel to the Galaxy Note, planned for the fall, and Apple is predicted to release a successor to the iPhone 4 around the same time. 

The S3 is the latest model in the Galaxy series that has made the firm the No. 1 shipper of handsets worldwide. 

Both the 3G and LTE models of the phone run on Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and have a 1.4 gigahertz quad-core processor and a 4.8 inch super AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen.

The LTE model supports digital media broadcasting and boasts a higher memory and connectivity speed.