HTC Manufacturing LTE Devices for SK Telecom

South Korea’s largest mobile phone operator SK Telecom’s going to release a series of devices supporting LTE. This will be the operator’s first attempt to work with devices of fourth generation.

A great number of largest manufacturers of mobile devices will be engaged in the development and manufacturing of the new devices. Among them will be Samsung and HTC, which are working with SK Telecom introducing current smartphone and devices on sale. In October three new smartphones will be introduced by Samsung, Pantech and LG. In addition, Samsung will prepare an 8.9-inch plate with support for LTE. It also will appear in October.

Fourth-generation network of SK Telecom was actively exploited in the summer of 2011. LTE network provides a data rate 75 Mbit/s, but still it can be used only by the residents of the capital Seoul. The expansion of 4G-services across the country will take place sometime in 2013. Experts estimate that by 2015 approximately 65% of mobile data traffic in South Korea will account for fourth-generation network, that is the same LTE.

The demand for the LTE based-devices is rapidly growing and thus the release of such devices in South Korea is the best thing to fulfill this demand.