Last week a consortium of telecom companies from South Korea (SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus) introduced the world’s first commercial 5G network in Seoul. They plan to expand it to 24 major Korean cities.
Earlier this year KT already announced its focus areas when it comes to 5g: smart cities, smart factories, connected cars, 5G media and the 5G cloud. In reaching its aim to provide consumers with innovative services and solutions, KT partners up with companies such as Samsung, Hyundai, Posco, Intel, Ericsson, NVidia and Qualcomm.
As 5G achieves speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G and other previous generations of mobile technology and has a very low latency, it will lead to quick developments in the Internet of Things and smart home and smart city solutions, connecting people to objects as well as objects to objects. According to Park Jung-ho, CEO of SKT: “AI will become the brain that seeks optimized solutions”.
In The Netherlands there are several pilot programs in 5G, for example 5Groningen. In this field lab, companies and governments are working together with experts to test and develop 5G solutions.
Read more at Korea Herald and Smart Cities World.
