SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, Korean smartphone makers are cutting prices for their newly introduced products in Korea to lure customers who have become more sensitive to price tags due to the mobile device distribution act. According to industry representatives, Samsung Electronics set the price tag of its Galaxy Note5 at 899,200 won [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Plus, Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, will offer approximately 44,000 receive-only mobile phones to all military camps in Korea for free. According to the Ministry of National Defense, the smallest mobile carrier was selected as the licensee for its project to deploy receive-only phones to military barracks as part of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics showcased its latest smartwatch in Germany on Thursday, saying that the device will be available for sale early next month. Samsung said the Samsung Gear S2, the company’s first circular smartwatch unveiled at an annual trade show in Berlin, will hit the world [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that cell phone prices in Korea are higher than anywhere else in the world. According to Gartner, a market research company, cell phone prices in Korea were highest among the 29 members of the OECD. Also, prices of smart phones ranked second. From 2011 to 2014, 27 [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire)– A Korean research company has succeeded in developing Layered Division Multiplexing(LDM) technology that can broadcast Ultra High Definition(UHD) and mobile High Definition(HD) quality programs at the same time. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI) announced that it has developed the next free network broadcasting system with ‘Clever Logic’, and succeeded [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest around 5.7 trillion won (US$4.83 billion) over the next five years to help nurture the fifth-generation (5G) network, unmanned drones and other high-end technology. Under the plan, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning will allocate the budget in 19 industry areas. “The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Microsoft turns out to exert overwhelming influence in the PC browsing and OS(Operating System) market in Korea. According to a research, Microsoft was far ahead in the domestic PC web browser market, while Google and Apple secured their place in the mobile operating system (OS) market. The research titled “Internet [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telink, the international carrier services division of SK Telecom, announced that it had successfully demonstrated high quality voice international call technology (VoLTE) based on an LTE network. VoLTE stands out as the highest quality voice service, offering low-frequency LTE spectrum usage, enabling network efficiency and reduced operational expenditure [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, today launched the “GiGA IoT Alliance,” an open consortium for Internet of Things (IoT) related industries, which will support brainstorming ideas for startups, commercializing the ideas, and promoting them overseas. The GiGA IoT Alliance, Korea’s largest IoT consortium, is composed of approximately 100 [...]
SEOUL, Aug 24 (Korea Bizwire) – When customers purchase premium smartphones, mobile carriers often offer practical items such as wireless chargers or transparent protection cases worth more than 50,000 won as promotional gifts. When Samsung Electronics rolled out its flagship Galaxy Note 5 model in Korea, SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in Korea in terms [...]