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  • KT’s Kids’ Land is now available on the move

    KT’s Kids’ Land is now available on the move

    KT’s Kids’ Land will soon be available on the move, as the mobile carrier tries to take on YouTube Kids by moving its popular child-friendly content service to smartphones.
    Kids’ Land, which launched in May on KT’s internet-protocol TVs, is now used by 3.6 million customers, according to KT. By creating a mobile app that is connected with the IPTV, the carrier said that kids will now be able to enjoy their favorite content anywhere they want.

    New content was also been added to the service, now upgraded to Kids’ Land 2.0, on Tuesday. While most of the content on the original Kids’ Land was for children, the new version comes with new videos dedicated to parenting, made for KT in cooperation with Dr. Oh Eun-young, a famous figure in the field of child care in Korea.

    Oh’s content will cover 10 big topics in parenting, spanning about 50 video clips, so that parents can easily learn how to behave with their children in specific situations, like when they won’t sleep.

    “There is so much, in fact, too much information on parenting that parents these days can’t really tell between reliable content and those that are not,” Oh said. “KT’s platform offers curated and reliable content that parents can always turn to.”

    Kang In-sik, vice president of the media content department at KT, said KT will be working to provide more original content to beat competition from other platform providers like YouTube. KT is currently contacting experts to make videos specifically targeting infants as well as the elderly and those hoping to learn a new language.

    The new Kids’ Land app will be ad-free and filter out harmful content for children.

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  • KT Korea to launch 5G soon

    KT Korea to launch 5G soon

    KT plans to roll out its next-generation 5G network to users as soon as next March after its test run at the PyeongChang Olympics proved a success.

    The country’s second-largest mobile carrier said Thursday that its 5G system will offer true wireless service as opposed to fixed wireless service. Verizon is preparing to launch the first fixed wireless 5G service in the United States later this year. Fixed wireless 5G service requires the use of a router, and can only produce small networks for homes or offices.

    “We are not going to say we have commercialized a 5G network after offering fixed wireless service for homes,” said Oh Seong-mok, the head of KT’s network division, at a press briefing Thursday at the company’s Gwanghwamun headquarters in central Seoul. “We can offer fixed wireless services for those who really need them, like households in rural areas with poor network infrastructure, but it will not be our focus.”

    According to KT, the key to commercializing 5G is making sure users don’t lose connectivity as they move between the ranges of base stations which broadcast the signals.

    A KT spokesperson said that the strategies behind deploying fixed wireless 5G in the United States and Korea differ because of the two countries’ telecommunications infrastructure. The United States still has many areas without the fiber cables that enable broadband service, and laying down the cables is costly. Fixed wireless 5G could prove to be a cheap, efficient alternative, delivering high-speed internet to customers who are currently poorly served.

    KT wants to take the lead in Korea’s advanced telecommunications market by becoming the first company to provide a seamless mobile 5G network. Oh said that though its service will be first rolled out in major Korean cities, it aims to eventually create a nationwide network.

    The company is also working to set up its 5G Open Lab, a research and development center in Seocho District, southern Seoul, that will share 5G technologies with small and medium-sized businesses. KT expects to open the lab within the next few months.

    Even if KT manages to offer 5G by next March, customers will have to wait a little longer for 5G-enabled phones to hit the market. Global manufacturers are expected to launch the first 5G-capable commercial phones by the second quarter of next year.

    KT said its first customers will likely be enterprise clients that can use the 5G network on their own devices.