Aruba Korea managing director Charles Incheol Kang said on Wednesday at a virtual press conference that the company expects growth in businesses it is collaborating with South Korean carriers this year.Up until now, the subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise had little collaboration with SK Teleco

KT on Wednesday said it has started its trail service for 5G standalone (SA) network.The network will available for its own employees at KT buildings and some metropolitan areas, the carrier said.It is the last quality testing before a commercial rollout, the carrier said.KT said 5G SA will offer lo

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said it has supplied its dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) technology to Verizon’s network.DSS allows for 4G base stations to process 5G signals. It allows carriers to use spectrum they used in 4G for 5G.Verizon launched its 5G nationwide service that uses DSS technology

SK Telecom said on Tuesday that it will sell its 100% stake in professional baseball team SK Wyverns to Shinsegae E-Mart for 135.2 billion won.The carrier said the coaching staff, players and front will all keep their jobs under the terms of the deal.The baseball team will also continue to be based

The US and China will likely lead investments into 5G network in 2021. The US has wrapped up its mid-band auction, grossing US$80.9 billion this month. China was the leader in 5G investment in 2020 and will likely continue its pace this year.Xiao Yaqing, the minister of China’s Ministry of Industry

LG Uplus said on Sunday that it has used re-configurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) made by US’ Ciena to build backbone network for the enterprise.The ROADM uses flexible grid and supports up to expansion of 600GB. This is six times the previous network’s 100GB.LG Uplus the new backbone ne

iPhone 12 5G serviced by carrier LG Uplus hit an average download speed of 625.03Mbps in Seoul in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to speed testing firm Ookla.SK Telecom offered 500.31Mbps and KT 393.95Mbps.This is despite LG Uplus having only 80% of the bandwidth for 5G compared to SK Telecom

KT said on Friday that it will sell its 44.85% stake in KT Powertel to security firm IDIS.The telco will sell its stakes for 40.6 billion won. The deal will conclude by the end of March.KT said it will focus its efforts on IT and telecommunication businesses following the sale.It will focus on growt

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that its 5G network equipment has received certificate from Common Criteria.Its 5G gNB, AU and DU were inspected by Canadian security firm Lightship, and received the Protection Profile (PP) certificate in November.Samsung said it aimed for the certificate as its n

RN2 Technologies on Friday said it has decided to issue 20 billion won worth of bond with warrant (BW).The funds will be used to on research and development, investment in facilities and operation costs.RN2 said it decided to issue the bond to preemptively secure funds as the conditions were solid.T

South Korean component maker Partron was developing mmWave 5G router for US carrier Verizon, TheElec has learned.The company was preparing to supply the routers, aimed at consumers, to the carrier in the second half of 2021 at the earliest, people familiar with the matter said.Partron, which as most

US carrier T-Mobile has excluded Samsung Electronics from its 5G network rollout, TheElec has learned.T-Mobile has secured 2.5GHz spectrum for 5G mid-band from its merger with Sprint.Samsung was a supplier of 5G equipment for Sprint’s 2.5GHz spectrum, but the Korean firm failed to clinch a similar d

Wi-Fi access point company Mercury said on Monday that it has posted 40.3 billion won in sales and 3 billion won in operating income in the fourth quarter of 2021.The company’s full-year earnings in 2020 comes to 117.8 billion won in sales and 3.4 billion operating income.Earnings were focused on th

US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) C-band auction closed on Friday as the highest-grossing spectrum auction ever held in the country. Gross proceeds of Auction 107 hit US$80.9 billion, near double the previous record of US$44.9 billion of Auction 97(AWS-3). The auction made available licen

Camera module maker Partron has supplied around 100 units of 5G routers that support mmWave to LG Plus, TheElec has learned.The companies were discussing additional supplies. The 5G router business is led by 42-year-old Kim Won-keun, son of Partron’s largest shareholder, the 72-year-old Kim Jong-koo

South Korean power amplifier maker Wipam is spending 11 billion won to form an investment firm.Pentastone Investment will be a wholly owned subsidiary that focuses on strategic investments in new businesses, technology and finance.The company seems to have found the fund to form the investment firm

Ericsson’s Chief Executive Officer Borje Ekholm pressured a Swedish minister to reverse a ban on including Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. in the country’s 5G roll-out, Bloomberg reported, citing reports by local media Dagens Nyheter.Ekholm lobbied Foreign Trade Minister Anna Hallberg in a ser

KMW said on Monday that it has supplied around half of the 4G equipment it needs to Rakuten Mobile as of December.The company had supplied 39.4 billion won worth out of its 89 billion won supply deal with the Japanese carrier up to December 15.The remaining kits will be supplied by the first quarter

South Korean carriers has market an average download speed of 690.47Mbps in their 5G networks in the second half of 2020, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.This was a 5% improvement from the 656.56Mbps in the first half, the ministry said.Upload speed however declined from 64.16Mbps of the first

Kisan Telecom’s sales in 2020 is expected to have been mostly from 4G repeaters, TheElec has learned.Sales is expected to be level to that of last year’s but lowered unit price of repeaters point mean the firm will likely break even in terms of profits.Kisan was hoping sales from 5G would increase t