Korean telecommunication Archives

SEOUL Gives Green Light to Wireless Carriers’ Bids for New Bandwidth

SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has approved bids by all three major mobile operators here to secure new bandwidths for faster and broader data services, according to a ministry in charge of the issue Monday. The big-three firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — are in a [...]

Korean Wireless Carriers Set to Save Pantech to Dismay of the Smartphone Maker

SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A ripple effect caused by Samsung Electronics’ pricing policy shift on its recently launched Galaxy S5 model and the business suspension on the local wireless carriers have seen unexpected situations in the local market. The domestic telcom industry set to stage a kind of discount campaigns for their smartphones available in the [...]