Of all the businesses you would expect blockchain to appear in, a mobile phone company would be one of the most surprising.
And yet, KT, South Korea state-owned telecom just announced they will introduce this technology in a few key areas of their business: 5G, finance and energy platforms.
It's not yet clear how and where exactly this technology will fit, but what is clear is the KT hopes to ride the PR wave of the "if it's on the blockchain, it must be good" trend. According to the press release:
Countless blocks that contain individuals or businesses’ digital data will be connected as a chain, which will be securely stored and transparently transacted on the network with less hacking risks, [].
You must admit this sounds rather cool.
The platform will be able to process up to 2500 transactions per second and they aim at reaching 100,000 TPS by the end of 2019.
While there will be no token, and the blockchain used will be just a glorified distributed database, this is still important enough to be talked about, IMHO.
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