SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carriers are gearing up for the Lunar New Year holiday when data usage spikes along highways, airports and shopping malls, company officials said Saturday. People travel long distances during the holiday season to visit their hometowns, causing heavy traffic jams. Some travel abroad or make trips [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it will partner with Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing app, to provide real-time navigation services based on big data. SK Telecom and Grab signed an agreement to establish a joint venture, Grab Geo Holdings, in charge of developing advanced [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Monday it will work with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to develop core technologies for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless network. The Korean electronics maker opened a 6G research lab at KAIST in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, making a preemptive [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea started providing free wireless Internet on small highway rest stops across the nation Friday in a bid to reduce people’s phone bills. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Expressway Corp. said free WiFi zones were set up at 248 rest areas for drowsy [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it will unveil its new smartphone based on the 5G network with a longer battery life and better cooling mechanism during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Spain. The Korean electronics maker will host a media event in Barcelona on Feb. 24 that is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will complete building its 5G infrastructure in major cities by the end of 2019 to get ahead in the next-generation wireless network market. Following the launch of the world’s first 5G network with SK Telecom Co. and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Queried about the biggest concerns with using 5G smartphones, the majority of respondents in a new survey pointed to battery life, overheating, and durability. LG Electronics Inc. conducted a survey of 1,000 smartphone users in South Korea and the United States, 65.3 percent of whom said they were most [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fixed-line operator SK Broadband Inc. said Monday that it is pushing to increase its network capacity to deal with the growing number of people using services offered by U.S. video streaming platform Netflix. The company is planning to increase its data transfer speed for high-speed networks to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The cause of a calamitous fire that engulfed a Seoul switching station of telecom giant KT Corp. two months ago remains elusive despite intensive investigations by police, forensic experts and firefighters, a police report said Friday. The report released by Rep. Kim Young-ho of the ruling Democratic Party said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Small and medium-sized smartphone manufacturers are making inroads in the vast smartphone market both domestically and internationally. According to industry watchers, Good Mobile is reviving Pantech Co.’s SKY Phone. The company is expected to begin exporting its own smartphones to the U.S. SKY Phone is one of the representative [...]