The three telecommunications companies agreed to cooperate with the Ministry of Science, ICT, and ICT in the early construction of 5G infrastructure, and they decided to invest 25 trillion won in wired and wireless investments by next year.
In particular, the three telecom companies decided to provide free video calls during the holiday season so that citizens can send online Lunar New Year due to Corona 19, and free data for low-income elementary, middle, and high school students when taking educational content such as EBS with their smartphones. It is a plan to provide.
In addition, the Ministry of Science and ICT plans to actively cooperate in discovering artificial intelligence (AI) and convergence services in the future while proposing to expand the linkage and linkage between various data accumulated in the’data dam’ and data held by each communication company.
Minister of Science and ICT, Choi Ki-young, held an online conference with representatives of the three telecommunications companies on the 9th to discuss pending issues in the field of communications.
■ 5G investment activation
First of all, the three telecom companies decided to make wired and wireless investments of about 25 trillion won (including SK Broadband) by next year in order to lead the early construction of 5G mobile communication infrastructure and the economic recovery that was contracted by Corona 19.
This year, the third year of 5G commercialization, we will do our utmost to build a 5G network. It is planning to focus on building 5G in the daily life of the people, such as complex).
In addition, the 28 ㎓ band 5G network was expanded to provide differentiated 5G convergence services, and the single mode (SA) conversion was also decided as a parallel key.
The government also decided to expand the 5G investment tax credit to support the network investment of telecommunications companies, while inducing investments such as 5G by strengthening quality evaluation.
■ Low-income elementary, middle and high school EBS content data’free’
In addition, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the three telecom companies decided to promote communication service support in a package form in various fields such as daily life, living, education, and leisure, as communication becomes increasingly indispensable due to the acceleration of non-face-to-face and onlineization.
Even during the Lunar New Year holidays, social distancing continues, and video calls are provided free of charge during the holiday season so that people who cannot visit their hometown can send’Online Lunar New Year’.
Any smartphone user who can make a video call can use it, and it can be used by 3 communication companies as well as affordable phone users. However, if the use is concentrated in a specific time period, problems such as quality deterioration may occur, so it is recommended to use distributed as much as possible.
In addition, support for low-income students, the elderly, and the disabled will be strengthened. It is planning to contribute to alleviating the education gap caused by Corona 19 by providing an additional service that allows all elementary, middle, and high school students from low-income families to freely use educational contents such as EBS through their smartphones without the burden of data usage.
SK Telecom’s EBS data pack, KT and LG U+’s EBS data security option, and other services worth 66,000 won per month are shared between the government and business operators.
Even in 5G, a plan for the disabled, which has doubled the amount of video calls (600 minutes) compared to the regular rate plan, is launched for the visually and deaf people. LG U+ will be released on the 22nd, and SK Telecom and KT will be released in April. As for the disabled, a fee reduction is being applied (35% mobile communication), so the focus was on expanding benefits.
For the elderly, the company plans to increase the convenience of using communication through the launch of the’Silver Safety Service’ and the opening of the’Adult Consultation Center’.
Support has also been prepared for small business owners and self-employed people who have difficulties in their lives due to Corona 19.
Small business owners and self-employed (about 150,000 people) who are using products for small business owners (SK Telecom (SK Broadband) Success Dream Plus, KT Soho Success Pack, and LG U+ Woori Shop Package) only apply for two months of mobile phone data. It offers an additional 100GB (50GB per month) over the course.
When business owners such as lodging and PC cafes apply for a temporary suspension of communication services (high-speed Internet, dedicated lines, etc.) used in the business due to a decrease in customers, etc., it has been decided to extend what was previously only possible for 3 months to 6 months.
In addition, the three telecom companies postponed suspension in February and March during the Lunar New Year holidays to prevent mobile phone charges from being overdue and disruption of mobile phone use, and decided to provide a parallel key along with a guide for partial payment of unpaid charges when applying.
In order to alleviate the burden of household communication expenses, the guide for the 25% monthly option contract fee discount system for mobile phones was expanded from 2 to 4 to eliminate the blind spot.
■ Artificial intelligence and convergence service cooperation
In a situation where the demand and interest for data on the big data platform in the telecommunication field, which KT is participating as a leading agency, is expanding, the Ministry of Science and ICT has accumulated various data in the’data dam’ and each communication company Proposed to expand the combination and linkage between the data held by the company.
In addition, he urged SK Telecom to make active efforts to create concrete commercialization results, such as on-site demonstration and utilization in relation to the domestic artificial intelligence semiconductor developed last year through industry-academia cooperation.
The government also announced that it will continue to expand policy support to strengthen the competitiveness of the artificial intelligence semiconductor industry by promoting the introduction and demonstration of artificial intelligence semiconductors in domestic data centers.
In addition, LG U+ welcomes the recent launch of a research institute for securing original artificial intelligence technologies and fostering experts at the group level, and revitalizing the artificial intelligence ecosystem by building data to improve artificial intelligence performance and expanding technology development cooperation. He called for participation and cooperation for this.
The Ministry of Science and ICT said that in the same way that telecommunications companies play an important role in the development of 5G convergence services in major countries such as the United States, telecommunications companies cooperate with demanding companies to discover marketable service models and create an open innovative ecosystem for win-win growth with startups and small and medium-sized companies. Plan.
In the case of realistic contents, he asked for global advancement along with more proactively producing quality contents so that 5G users can enjoy more diverse and differentiated contents.
Telecom companies also revealed that they plan to discover leading models of 5G convergence services and connect them to related market expansion and global advancement based on this.
The company decided to discover new business models in major B2B service fields such as smart factories (including ports and logistics), smart cities, robots, and autonomous vehicles, and expand and apply them to secure the highest level of demonstration reference.
In the field of realistic content such as VR and AR, it has decided to expand related infrastructure and reinforce its own content production capabilities, and expand global expansion activities.
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The government also decided to actively support the core service field through the ‘5G Innovation Project’ and actively support the establishment of the world’s best 5G convergence ecosystem by discovering new service fields.
Minister of Science and Technology Choi Ki-young said, “Supporting the communications sector for the stability of people’s lives is a big step toward realizing an inclusive society that everyone can enjoy, beyond simple recovery of daily life and economy in overcoming the Corona 19 crisis. He emphasized, “If we move forward in the direction of challenge and innovation, step by step, like a cow, we will be able to make a new year of building a 5G convergence ecosystem and a new leap forward.”