Ericsson has partnered with two of South Korea's leading wireless telecoms to accelerate 5G deployment:
This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To receive the full story plus other insights each morning,Swedish networking and telecommunications company Ericsson is ramping up efforts to enable the deployment of 5G in South Korea through agreements with two of the country's leading wireless telecoms.
to deploy 5G networks and services for KT. The 5G service will be available commercially to South Korean consumers starting in April, but the companies are also exploring how the network will provide opportunities for home internet coverage as well as industrial and enterprise solutions. KT and Ericsson are collaborating to develop use case plans for 5G-based services such as smart factories, drone-based monitoring, and connected vehicles.
The continued march toward 5G networks offers new opportunities for collaboration between telecoms and networking providers like Ericsson. The company already works with telecoms around the world to supply equipment and knowledge to support various parts of their network infrastructure. Those existing relationships — combined with public projects dedicated to getting 5G networks off the ground — will help Ericsson grow its business.
While 5G will offer a variety of useful new capabilities for companies that provide and use IoT solutions, there will be areas where it won't be useful within the IoT — at least not immediately. Companies offering IoT solutions need to look at 5G as a tool in their arsenal; the thing they need to figure out is when they can build solutions that amplify its strengths, mitigate its weaknesses, and when turn to alternatives if they can't adequately do either.Provides an overview of the key differences between 5G networks and today's alternatives.Presents some of the expectations for 5G from companies that will bring the standard to the world.
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