SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it will start testing millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G at a university campus under a government-led program as the country prepares to roll out the fastest version of the latest generation network. The mobile carrier said it has completed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, has the fastest 5G download speed among South Korean mobile carriers, a report showed Monday. The mobile carrier’s median 5G download speed in Seoul stood at 476.5 megabits per second (Mbps), followed by the country’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. is picking up the pace in its efforts to grow its presence in South Korea, a market that has long been dominated by Samsung smartphones. The U.S. tech giant recently announced that it will open its second official store in South Korea. The store will be located [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The military will introduce a Samsung smartphone-based combat information device on a trial basis next year that will enable troops to view real-time battle information without relying on communications networks. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said it has signed a contract with LIG Nex1 Co. to buy the individual [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co.’s CEO Park Jung-ho was appointed as the vice chairman of its chipmaking affiliate SK hynix Inc., SK Group said Thursday, in a move to boost the companies’ efforts in new tech businesses. SK Group, the country’s third-largest conglomerate, announced the new [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. was the top global smartphone manufacturer in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, as demand for its mobile devices increased in advanced markets amid the pandemic. Samsung led the industry in terms of smartphone production with 78 million units in the July-September [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) service that automatically converts speech, meeting notes and interviews into text. Naver launched the Clova Note service on Sunday, which creates conservation-styled text if users upload voice files or directly record their voices. After installing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The ICT ministry said Monday the redistribution price for past generation network frequency bands used by the country’s major mobile carriers should be at least 3.17 trillion won (US$2.9 billion). The ministry and the three telecom operators — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — had [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s number of 5G users reached nearly 10 million as of end-October, ministry data showed Monday. The number of 5G subscribers stood at 9.98 million as of the end of October, up 735,113 from the previous month, according to data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. said Monday it will open a new store in South Korea, expanding its presence in the country dominated by local tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. Apple said on its homepage that it will soon open a new store in Yeouido, western Seoul, its second official store in [...]