SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The three major mobile carriers in South Korea are scrambling to install indoor telecommunications equipment to enable the use of 5G networks in buildings later this year. Since becoming the world’s first to successfully commercialize 5G services, the three mobile carriers have been focusing on expanding the network to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of 5G subscribers in South Korea surpassed the 2 million mark four months after the commercial launch of the ultrafast network, industry data showed Thursday. Users of 5G mobile plans by three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — reached 2.01 million [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Friday its operating profit fell due to increased spending for 5G service marketing and infrastructure buildup. Its operating earnings came to 322.8 billion won (US$270.7 million) in the April-June period, a 6.9-percent fall from a year ago, the nation’s leading mobile carrier said in a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom operators are expected to have posted downbeat earnings in the second quarter despite robust sales due to their cutthroat competition to attract 5G subscribers, analysts said Wednesday. The combined sales of the three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has proposed that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) adopt its 5G technologies as global standards, the country’s science ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it has asked for some of the wireless connection and broadband technologies used in the country’s 5G service to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it began the world’s first 5G roaming service in Switzerland in a partnership with a local carrier. Samsung Galaxy S10 users with SK Telecom’s 5G plan will be able to connect to Swisscom’s 5G network when they visit Switzerland after [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s first commercial 5G services are expanding their presence in South Korea, with the number of users of the faster mobile networks rising at an eye-popping pace since their launch in April. But local carriers face the daunting task of improving service quality to meet the high expectations [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it will start a Happy Credit Project where SKT users can collect points for purchasing products from social enterprises or small to medium-sized businesses. SKT users can collect Happy Credit Points if they buy products listed on the Good Consumption list posted [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp. said Tuesday it will release a cloud-based virtual reality (VR) gaming service later this year, taking advantage of its low-latency 5G network. The nation’s No. 3 mobile carrier said it will launch a wide range of VR games for head-mounted displays connected to its 5G network [...]