Nokia sees South Korea as pioneer nation within the 6G subject

Nokia said that its future 6G plans in South Korea contain collaborating with main cell carriers within the nation

Finnish vendor Nokia is seeing South Korea as a probable candidate to commercialize 6G wi-fi networks and associated providers by 2029, native information service Korea JoongAng Every day reported.

“We plan to help the speedy deployment of 6G from the beginning, together with low-band frequencies,” mentioned James Han, Nokia Korea’s buyer chief know-how officer. “Ongoing discussions are starting from 470 to 690 MHz spectrum bands, and these discussions will likely be finalized on the World Radiocommunications Conferences in 2027, after which frequency allocation will proceed in Korea accordingly,” the chief mentioned throughout its annual Amplify Korea occasion, which befell in Seoul this week.

Nokia additionally recognized prolonged actuality (XR) as key content material for monetization within the 5G-Superior (5G-A) and 6G period.

Nokia additionally said that its future 6G plans in South Korea contain collaborating with main cell carriers within the nation. The seller has already partnered with all three of Korea’s main telecom corporations — KT, SK Telecom and LG Uplus ,with a give attention to analysis in the direction of future 6G programs, in accordance with the report.

In Might, Korean provider KT partnered with Nokia to hold out analysis within the 6G subject.

The 2 corporations agreed to collaborate on growing superior Open RAN know-how for 6G cell communications and ultra-wideband wi-fi entry know-how utilizing candidate frequencies for 6G. The pair additionally agreed to intently put together for the 6G period, specializing in discovering future providers and innovating infrastructure that may be supplied by way of 6G know-how.

KT mentioned that this collaboration with Nokia will safe international management in setting requirements and commercializing 6G cell communications.

In November 2023, South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT unveiled its KRW440.4 billion ($324.5 million) analysis and improvement plan for future 6G networks.

The ministry famous that the plan consists of growing applied sciences associated to wi-fi communications, cell core networks, 6G wired networks, 6G programs and the standardization of 6G.

The ministry additionally mentioned it’ll work to standardize the locally-developed 6G applied sciences in step with the worldwide standardization necessities, that are anticipated to start out being established as early as subsequent 12 months, the report said.

South Korea’s 6G plan additionally includes the event of applied sciences for the upper-mid band, which covers the frequency vary of seven GHz to 24 GHz, to advance the 5G community service.

The ministry additionally goals to showcase the intermediate final result of its 6G community improvement in 2026 to play a number one position in setting the worldwide requirements for the next-generation community service.

The Korean authorities had beforehand introduced its Ok-Community 2030 technique, with the intention of boosting private-public cooperation to develop 6G applied sciences, innovate round software-based next-generation cell networks and strengthen the community provide chain.

The standardization course of for future 6G programs is in its early levels. At a earlier plenary session, 3GPP determined to finish the usual specs for business 6G networks and terminals by 2029.