KT and American Verizon Succeed in World’s First 5G Hologram International Call
05/26/2017
KT revealed that CEO Hwang Chang-Gyu and American Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam met on April 3rd afternoon at the KT Gwanghwamun building to present results of both sides from recent 5G cooperation and commit to continual cooperation on 5G technology.
04/26/2017
KT announced on the 12th of April that it has applied a technology called Connected Mode Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) in the LTE network, and the technology has successfully helped smartphone battery last longer up to by 45%.
Samsung and KT to Launch NB-IoT Pilot Service for Friendly-Users
04/25/2017
Samsung and KT today announced the pilot service launching of NB-IoT (CAT-NB1). The service launch is targeted at friendly-users in Seoul and its metropolitan areas over a two-month period, with the aim of extending diverse service models and coverage in near future.
KT launched 'UHD TV Technical Center' to lead UHD broadcasting era
04/25/2017
On March 29th, KT launched 'UHD TV Technical Center' to take the lead in UHD broadcasting era. The launching ceremony was attended by Mr. Sung-mok Oh, the head of Network Division.
03/22/2017
KT held a press conference at the PyeongChang Alpensia Resort in Gangwon province last week (on 14th), offering opportunities to learn and experience 5G-based integrated/converged services which will be introduced during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.
Global Mobile Industry Leaders Commit to Accelerate 5G NR for Large-scale Trials and Deployments
02/27/2017
Today a contingent of mobile communications companies announced their collective support for the acceleration of the 5G New Radio (NR) standardization schedule to enable large-scale trials and deployments as early as 2019.
02/24/2017
Samsung Electronics has signed a solution contract for NB-IoT with KT on February 20, 2017. Samsung and KT have set the preparation for NB-IoT to complete early this year for official commercialization and newly develop IoT market.
02/11/2017
Last week, at the ‘2017 New Year Strategies Workshop’, KT Chairman Hwang Chang Kyu unveiled a blueprint for the management strategies in his second term, announcing his great ambition to boost ‘five key platforms’ (media, smart energy, enterprise/public value enhancement, financial transaction, safety) for the three years to come.
KT opens up Home AI era with GiGA Genie, the world's first AI TV
01/30/2017
KT unveiled GiGA Genie, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) TV set-top box (and also service) at a press conference held on the 17th. The company said the new device/service, developed based on network technologies grafted onto AI know-how it has long accumulated, will bring a new paradigm to consumer services.
2016 communication service quality evaluation - Average LTE speeds of 120.09 Mbps
01/12/2017
On the 28th of last December, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) announced the results of '2016 communication service quality evaluation' mainly in two categories: Wireless Internet (LTE, 3G, WiBro, WiFi (Telco, Public)) and Wired Internet (Giga and high-speed divisions).