Meeting ITU-Mandated Requirements Such as Ultra-High Speed and Ultra-Low Latency

KT announced that the 'PyeongChang 5G Standard (TTA standard name: Communication System for 5G Trial Service)' was selected as an excellent standard at the 92nd Information and Communication Standards General Assembly of the Korea Information and Communication Technology Association (TTA, Telecommunication Technology Association) held at El Tower in Seocho-gu.

The PyeongChang 5G Standard is the world's first 5G common standard developed starting in 2015 by the '5G Specification Committee (5G SIG, 5G Special interest Group)' comprised of global ICT leaders including KT, Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, and Intel, and completed in June 2016. It satisfies the major requirements for 5G services stipulated by the ITU, including Ultra-Low Latency and Ultra-High Speed.

KT disseminated the PyeongChang 5G Standard as a standard to successfully showcase 5G trial service in PyeongChang in 2018, and proposed it as one of the standardization projects to the Korea Information and Communication Technology Association in March, which was approved as a provisional standard in June to vitalize Korea's 5G industry.

Additionally, at this general assembly, KT's '5G Network Slice Orchestration (ITU Standard Y.3110),' which was developed by KT and adopted as one of the 5G standards by the ITU in September, was selected as a Korea Information and Communication Technology Association standard.

KT's 5G Network Slice Orchestration is a core technology for dynamically allocating and operating network slices tailored to various 5G service characteristics by optimizing virtualized infrastructure of communication network operators through 5G services.

KT's Jeon Hong-beom, Director of the Infrastructure Research Institute, stated, "KT's PyeongChang 5G technology has already been realized, and this technology was selected as a TTA excellent standard," and added, "KT is preparing for early 5G commercialization with such excellent technology, which will become critical infrastructure for Korea's ICT industry in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution."