5G technology is currently being reviewed by ITU member countries.
Korean telecommunications operator KT said its pilot “5G” technology has been adopted as the draft international standard by the International Telecommunication Union.
KT said the networking technology being adopted was introduced last March at ITU-T IMT2020 where the draft version went through five rounds of focus groups for approval. Since then, the technology has undergone revisions and improvements in order to reach its current form.
The technology is undergoing a six-month process in which the 193 member states of the ITU will each review the standards. The official and final announcement is set to take place in 2017, KT said.
“The independently developed 5G technology has been completed to international standards and has been able to take 5G leadership in the global market,” said Lee Dong-myun, integration technology director at KT. “Going forward we will make efforts to make the 5G technologies KT developed a successful international standard.”
According to Korean press reports, the five 5G-based services that were adopted by the ITU as a draft for international standardization are sync view, 360-degree live virtual reality, omni view, hologram performance and hologram live. Sync view broadcasts sports from the players’ point-of-view; the 360-degree live VR is a service based on VR technology; and omni view is a live broadcast service of selected multi-objective views.
KT said it’s also working on the development of on-stage holographic performances and is developing a video call technology using 3-D holograms.
Korean government to allocate additional spectrum for 5G services next year
In related news, South Korea’s government announced plans to expand the bandwidth allocated to 5G mobile services during 2018, local press reported.
The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said it will share bandwidth in the 1.3 GHz band between the country’s three mobile carriers: KT, SK Telecom and LG Uplus.
