SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — KT has retrieved more than 12,000 small-cell base stations after the devices were linked to a recent unauthorized micro-payment fraud scheme, the telecom company said Thursday. The recall targets “femtocells,” ultra-small base stations used to boost indoor mobile coverage, after investigators found that illegally modified versions of the devices [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As governments around the world race to build artificial intelligence systems under national control, a new analysis suggests that telecom operators may emerge as the biggest beneficiaries of the shift toward so-called “sovereign AI.” In a report published Nov. 26, credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS said telecom companies are structurally [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will require telecommunications companies to shift fully to standalone 5G networks as a condition for renewing their 3G and LTE spectrum licenses, the government said Wednesday, marking a major policy push to modernize national mobile infrastructure for the artificial intelligence era. The Ministry of Science and ICT said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Co. and its four affiliated airlines said Friday they will adopt SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service on their flights starting next year. Korean Air and four other airlines — full-service carrier Asiana Airlines Inc. and low-cost carriers Jin Air Co., Air Busan Co. and Air Seoul Inc. — [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered radio access network (RAN) in a bid to lead next-generation 6G network technologies. Under the agreement, the two companies plan to research and demonstrate core [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has conducted a major reorganization and personnel reshuffle aimed at restoring customer confidence and strengthening its focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The company said its organization has been regrouped into two main pillars — telecommunications and AI — [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. has come under scrutiny for allegedly concealing a massive malware infection last year instead of reporting it to authorities, a joint government-private investigative panel said Thursday. According to the panel, KT discovered in mid-2024 that dozens of its servers had been infected with BPFDoor, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., a major mobile carrier in South Korea, reported a cyberattack on its servers to authorities Thursday, industry sources said, the latest in a series of recent industry-wide data breach cases. According to the sources, LG Uplus submitted a report earlier in the day to the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus — are preparing to launch unified mobile pricing plans by the end of this year, in a bid to simplify what critics say has become an excessively complicated and confusing system for consumers. According to data submitted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major telecom companies are facing criticism for quietly ending new subscriptions to dozens of outdated LTE plans that were more expensive than 5G options—without properly informing existing users, leaving many still paying inflated rates. According to Rep. Choi Soo-jin of the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications [...]