SKT cranks LTE-A up to 225Mbps

Maintaining its technological edge, South Korea’s SK Telecom on Thursday announced that it has commercialized 225Mbps LTE-Advanced – three times as fast as 75Mbps LTE – for the first time in the world.

The carrier upgraded LTE-Advanced, which provides up to 150Mbps, by applying Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology that binds 20MHz bandwidth in the 1.8GHz band and 10MHz bandwidth in the 800MHz band. At its peak speed, customers are able to download a 1GB movie in 37 seconds.

SK Telecom introduced LTE-Advanced last June, three years on from the nation’s first LTE commercialisation in July 2011.

In order to make use of the network speed, SK Telecom introduced Angles, a social multimedia service, that allows high-definition video files filmed from different angles by up to four users to be automatically edited into one single file in the cloud then to be viewed and shared on smartphones.

The company will also unveil Cloud Game, a cloud-based streaming game platform, on June 24. Cloud Game will run on a cloud server so that users can enjoy it on smartphones in a real-time with ultra-high definition, ultra-high volume and multiplayer games.

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The company also beefed up video content as well. At the end of last May, SK Telecom and SK Broadband started the world’s first UHD service on ‘B tv mobile’. UHD content is four times the resolution of full HD.

The SamsungGalaxy S5 is optimised for the new service and goes on sale Thursday.

SK Telecom’s customers will not be charged extra for the 225Mbps LTE-Advanced service and at the end of June, SK Telecom will introduce the ‘Subway Free’ plan, an optional data plan to allow unlimited data use in subways and subway stations in Seoul and the metropolitan area at 9,000 KRW a month.