Korean mobile carrier KT unveiled its 6G network road map, positioning the next-generation network as a social infrastructure for stable and reliable operation of artificial intelligence (AI), not an extension of past competitions over network speed. During a press conference on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, Monday (local time), head of KT’s Future Network Lab Lee Jong-sik said that the company aims to build an intelligent infrastructure integrating networks and AI. “While 5G was driven by a race to achieve the world’s first commercialization, our 6G network will focus on delivering tangible improvements in customer experience, restructuring costs to ensure sustainable growth as a carrier, and creating new market opportunities,” he said. According to the company, its 6G vision centers on using AI to enable intelligent network operations while ensuring the network delivers the ultralow latency and ultrahigh reliability that AI services demand. The importance of ultralow latency is growing amid the expansion of AI services, as AI systems often nee