SEOUL, South Korea,
Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KT
Corporation (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT), South Korea's largest telecommunications
company, won the Greatest 5G Innovation and Telecom Service
Innovation categories in annual awards honoring the best telecom
companies in the world.
The recognition came at the 11th annual awards ceremony of
Informa Telecoms & Media, a London-based ICT research organization. The
coveted global awards cite companies which have displayed
extraordinary achievements and innovations. There are 14 categories
in telecommunications technologies and services, and network
control, automation and security.
The 5G World 2020 Awards reaffirmed KT's prowess as a global
leader in the next-generation information and communications
technology. In addition to Telecom Service Innovation and Greatest
5G Innovation, KT's operations were high enough to earn nominations
in five other categories, including the Most Successful 5G Consumer
Service, Most Innovative 5G Enterprise Partnership/Trial and Best
Network Automation Technology.
"The 5G World 2020 Awards mark a momentous achievement of KT
gaining recognition on the global stage by combining its 5G service
capability and technological expertise," said Jeon Hong-Beom, KT's senior executive vice
president and head of the company's AI/DX Convergence Business
Group. "In the post-pandemic era of non-contact lifestyles, KT will
continue to introduce heartwarming, humanitarian services and
technologies, such as digital healthcare, spearheading changes in
people's daily lives and industrial innovations.
In the 5G World 2019 Awards, KT swept four categories – Best 5G
International Commercial Launch, Telecom Service Innovation, Best
Network Automation Technology and Greatest 5G Innovation – the most
among Korean telecommunications companies. KT also won 5G
Leadership in the World Communication Awards, given by London-based Total Telecom, in 2018 and
2019.
In the Greatest 5G Innovation award for 2020 KT was honored for
its Cloud Autonomous Driving. The category selects the most
innovative product that can lead the 5G industry through the use of
new technologies and services in next-generation networks.
KT's Cloud Autonomous Driving, developed as part of the
government-initiated "Giga KOREA" project, enables real-time
self-driving by uploading in real time the vehicle sensor data to
KT's cloud platform and delivering the platform's control
information to the vehicle. This is a new service created by
integrating network slicing and edge computing to self-driving. It
satisfies the requirements for driverless driving through
arithmetic operation performed by the platform, instead of
vehicles.
KT's Global Epidemic Prevention Platform (GEPP) earned it the
Telecom Service Innovation award this year. The category brings to
light outstanding novel solutions for resolving social issues by
means of innovative service using mobile technology, which can be
easily benchmarked by peer companies.
The judging criteria for the Telecom Service Innovation award
were "technological innovativeness," "contribution to resolution of
social issues," and the "timeliness and appropriateness of
technology" for application by other industries.
KT's Global Epidemic Prevention Platform is a solution for
informing visitors to countries affected by contagious diseases of
infection risk and assisting health authorities in risk monitoring
by using communication Big Data technology.
Since 2016, KT and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention have jointly promoted the use of GEPP within Korea under
the name of "Smart Quarantine Service." In 2018, their
collaboration proved instrumental for the Korean government's
response to MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). In 2019, KT
introduced GEPP in Kenya,
Laos and Ghana, successfully proving the solution's
potentiality for contribution to prevention of infectious diseases
and its expanded applications.
In particular, when the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Korea this
year, KT provided essential assistance to the Korean government in
case investigation and contact tracing of potential virus carriers.
KT's substantial contribution to curbing the pandemic's
transmission via its mobile solution earned the company the
prestigious award in the category of Telecom Service
Innovation.
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ABOUT KT CORPORATION (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT)
KT Corp., Korea's largest telecommunications service provider,
is leading the new era of innovations in one the world's most
connected countries with 5G, Big Data, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain and
other transformative technologies. KT launched the world's first
nationwide commercial 5G network in April
2019, after showcasing the first trial 5G services at the
PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in February
2018. To help cope with COVID-19, KT is staging a social
campaign, dubbed "Ma-Eum:TACT (Heart to Heart)," providing
technology supports for people and businesses in need. KT will
deliver most essential and innovative services and solutions to its
customers around the world as the first frontier in the next
technology revolution and number one Global ICT Company.
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