SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Following in the footsteps of SKT and LG Uplus, KT is freeing its Wi-Fi access points to the public, becoming the last of the three major South Korean mobile network providers to join the government’s effort to create a nationwide free Wi-Fi zone. KT’s latest move to join its [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean mobile carriers are bracing for a possible shake-up of phone bills, as the government inches towards scrapping what are known as basic charges, fees that have been a key driver of profits for telecom companies in the past. After years of criticism and complaints, pressure from newly-elected [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Following controversy surrounding its use of a free cache server in South Korea last month, Facebook, the American social network giant, is once again embroiled in controversy as a growing number of users have complained about the misleading description of its messaging app that tricked many people into downloading [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The monthly data consumption of South Koreans using the fourth-evolution network (LTE) surpassed 6 gigabytes for the first time in April, reflecting the rising demand for video streaming and other services in the mobile environment, industry data showed Friday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Science, [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The row between South Korean internet provider SK Broadband and social networking giant Facebook continues following reports of connection issues for Facebook users on SK Broadband connections. With the country witnessing for the first time a clash between a foreign content provider and a telecom network over shared broadband network [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C is launching a new physical distribution service which uses a distributed database system called a blockchain, the company announced yesterday. Blockchain is a groundbreaking technology that allows users to keep a record of all their transactions transparently, in linear and chronological order. Instead of saving information on a [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is allegedly in a dispute with SK Broadband over its share of data traffic costs, after the South Korean internet provider rebuffed the social networking giant’s request to provide the free use of a cache server, which helps to speed up access to data. After sitting together at the [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean mobile carriers’ Internet-based TV businesses have emerged as their stable source of profit on the back of an increase in the number of subscribers, data by the companies showed Friday. The country’s three mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — saw [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The location-based services (LBS) market in South Korea is growing at a rapid clip as industry forecasts predict a 70 percent increase in market growth this year. According to an industry report on the LBS market recently published by the Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA), demand has been growing for [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea successfully launched its fourth telecommunications satellite Friday that will provide enhanced broadcasting and communications services, the ICT ministry said. The commercial satellite, named the Mugunghwa-7, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou in French Guiana, aboard a rocket made by France-based Arianespace at 7:27 p.m. (local time), said the Ministry of [...]