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

Wi-Fi access point maker Mercury is expecting improved earnings in the second half of 2020 thanks to its supply to telco KT.The company began shipping more access points for KT’s Wi-Fi 6 access point aimed at the home in the fourth quarter.KT had launched Wi-Fi access points in June and August this

Wireless network solution firm Innowireless’ sales from 5G is expected to surpass 4G this year.The company is expected to post 20 billion in sales in the fourth quarter, with over half of them from 5G. Innowireless has accumulated 64.4 billion won in sales this year as of the third quarter. Around 5

SK Telecom said on Thursday that it has launched a 5G edge cloud service with Amazon Web Services.It has launched its first AWS Wavelength Zone in Daejeon. This will be expanded to Seoul and other areas next year.SK Telecom said apps accessing the cloud will bypass internet and regional web sites an

Gigalane on Tuesday said it will launch a capital increase of 21 billion won through share offering.A share will be priced at 2,283 won. This is double the conversion price of its 110 billion won of convertible bonds it issued this year.Shareholders Kepler Value Partners and Neoplux will each buy 11

The global open RAN market will be worth US$3.2 billion in 2024, according to estimates by market research firm Omdia.It is a 33% increase from Omdia’s previous estimation of US$2.4 billion. Last year, the open RAN was worth only US$70 million.Carriers were leading the way for open and virtual RAN d

Ace Technologies’ order for electronics manufacturing service (EMS) from a European telecom equipment maker has been delayed to next year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean company was expected be named in September and starting producing the kits to its customers within the year.Ace Technologies

China Unicom will expand the application of 5G network slicing technology to the whole country next year, the company said on Thursday at a press conference in Beijing.China’s third largest telco already launched 5G standalone network in over 300 cities this year, the company said.Last month, it app

LG Uplus on Thursday showed off a trial of its autonomous parking technology for cars.The telco showed off its technology in which a smartphone is used for a consumer to pick an empty parking lot. The car that is registered to the smartphone will then park itself to the lot without the need of a dri

Solid’s bid to supply repeaters for London Underground’s network has been postponed to next year.Solid had hoped that the result of the bid would come out by the third quarter of 2020.The South Korean repeater maker is competing with US’ CommScope to supply distributed antenna systems (DAS) repeater

Ericsson said on Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in the US over violating their contractual agreements related to patent licensing.The pair are in negotiation over patent licensing fees and the lawsuit is expected to cause delays in this, the Swedish tech firm said.Ope

Samsung Electronics has begun producing the telecom equipment it will supply to US carrier Verizon this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment supply is part of 7.9 trillion won deal between the pair for the South Korean tech giant to supply the carrier with 4G and 5G equipment.The production volu

Telecom equipment maker HFR has built private 5G networks in three smart factories in South Korea through SK Telecom.The company collaborate with equipment makers Contela and Insnode as well as telecom software company Ntels. HFR acquired Ntels earlier this year.Private 5G network limits network acc

KT has promoted two executive vice presidents to presidents in its year-end reshuffle.Kang Gook-hyun, head of the commerce division, and Park Jong-wook, head of business planning division, were made new presidents.Along with with CEO Koo Hyun-mo, the two presidents will contribute to collective mana

South Korea repeater maker CS saw its export of 4G LTE repeaters to Japan increase in the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The company’s accumulated earnings up to the third quarter was 90 million won in operating loss and 29.3 billion won in sales.But it saw export to Japan increase in

South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said Thursday that it has developed a radio over fiber (RoF) 5G mmWave optical repeater.The institute has handed over the technology to HFR, Lightron and other companies.ETRI developed the technology in collaboration with KT, FRTek

KMW has begun supply of 4G radio unit in mass scale to Rakuten Mobile of Japan in the fourth quarter.Out of the contract worth 89 billion won, KMW had supplied 6.5 billion worth in the third quarter. The contract will expire by the end of the year.The South Korean company’s radio unit combines anten

SK Telecom’s shareholders on Thursday approved the company’s plan to split off its mobility business.The new company, T Map Mobility, will inaugurate on December 29.81.4% of shares with voting rights participated in the shareholders’ meeting. 99.98% of them approved the motion.SK Telecom CEO Park Ju