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News about KT

• Korea's working on a cool combination: 5G and the Winter Olympics

  KT and NEC have successfully trialed a high-frequency, gigabit-speed backhaul system

• Wi-Fi and LTE join up for gigabit mobile service in Korea

  The GiGA LTE system from KT and Samsung combines the two networks

• Docker buys SDN start-up for container networking

  Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane.

• Nokia, Korea Telecom plan to demo 4G for machines, cars

  The two companies will show a prototype for communicating with wearables, cars and smart meters

• Open source startup targeting DevOps-defined networking

  A software startup debuted this week proposing software-defined networking to Docker, the open source software for creating Linux application virtualization containers.

• New rules aim to prevent IoT devices from taking down mobile networks

  Carriers are scared that sloppily written apps and chatty devices will overload their networks with signaling traffic

Features about KT

• Operators lay groundwork for global LTE roaming

  Verizon plans to offer LTE roaming in several countries early next year, with other operators also planning to roll out the service