SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Ideas for the future once presented by Google Inc. through its various experiments are turning into realities in 2020. Glasses using augmented reality (AR) technology, first introduced by the U.S. tech giant in 2012 with Google Glass, which failed to catch on and was widely seen as ahead of [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, said Thursday it will supply 5G virtual reality (VR) content to Taiwan’s largest telecommunication firm. LG Uplus’ 5G VR content will be also available on Chunghwa Telecom Co. when Taiwan commercializes a 5G network next month, according to the company. [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean 5G mobile network users are estimated to have reached around 7 million as of late May, just 14 months after the country adopted the ultrahigh speed telecom service, data showed Tuesday. The number of 5G subscribers in the nation is 6.9-7 million, roughly equal to 10 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 6 million South Koreans were subscribed to 5G mobile networks as of April, a year after the country adopted the service, government data showed Monday. The number of 5G users in the nation reached 6.34 million as of the end of April, up 7.8 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea’s telecommunications market dominated by three major firms lacks competition and needs to improve its structure to provide better services to consumers, a state-run think tank said Tuesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) said although competition in the local telecom market, viewed as an oligopoly, has [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunication company, said Sunday that it has applied 5G self-driving carts to the operation of its logistics center for the first time in the industry in a bid to streamline processes at logistics centers that supply handsets to each agency and others. The [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunication firms said Saturday they have released various services and content related to the country’s professional baseball league as they try to attract baseball fans at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season started May 5 after South Korea managed to flatten [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, has announced that it will be introducing a precise location information service at 40 golf courses nationwide with VC. VC, a manufacturer of ‘Voice Caddie,’ the KLPGA’s official distance finder device brand, is the No. 1 ICT golf device company in [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix, the world’s leading video streaming service provider, will come under growing pressure to share the network costs here following the revision to related laws, industry sources said Thursday. On Wednesday, the National Assembly approved the revision to the country’s telecommunications business act, which stipulates, in a nutshell, foreign [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunication firm, said Sunday it will conduct a research project on epidemic prevention with financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A South Korean consortium led by KT will carry out the project named “A Next Generation Surveillance Study for Epidemic Preparedness,” [...]