SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Big Three Korean telecommunications companies (SKT, KT and LG Uplus) have consolidated their in-house mobile app stores into a single entity called ONE store. The service took off Wednesday with mixed expectations about its ability to offer a compelling challenge to Google. Prior users of the T Store [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will establish what it is calling a ‘smart quarantine system’ in order to prevent the influx of foreign diseases. The government will coordinate with KT, a major phone service provider, and use international roaming information as part of its efforts. The Ministry of Science, ICT and [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giants and mobile carriers promoted their latest technology at the World IT Show (WIS), which opened in Seoul on Tuesday to showcase smart solutions to everyday life. More than 450 technology firms from home and abroad are participating in the annual event scheduled to continue [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 19 million smartphone and other mobile device users in South Korea have adopted various types of “data plans” that offer unlimited talk and text services for free, reflecting a surge in mobile data traffic, industry officials said Monday. The big-three local firms — SK Telecom Co., KT [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s big three mobile carriers on Monday divided up four new bandwidths via a government auction that ended earlier than expected. It will allow SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. to upgrade their services amid surging data traffic in the tech-savvy nation where most of [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Tech giants from home and abroad are battling to garner a larger slice of the South Korean market for cloud computing solutions, industry watchers said Monday, as local demand for the services is expected to grow sharply down the road. The South Korean market for cloud computing solutions is [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top three mobile carriers will team up with Naver, the country’s leading Internet service provider, to launch a unified app store, company officials said Thursday. SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. already have a combined app retail channel: One Store. A subsidiary of SK Telecom, which [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare joint publicity stunt, South Korea’s two smaller mobile carriers placed an ad in 29 major newspapers late last month to denounce industry leader SK Telecom Co.‘s push to buy the country’s top cable TV operator. “We request that SK Telecom give up on a harmful acquisition [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Friday they have indicted South Korea’s three mobile carriers on charges of violating a law strictly banning excessive discounts or subsidies to customers. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said the carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. – are accused of paying subsidies far over [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. vowed Wednesday to beef up its efforts to tap deeper into the media industry through the acquisition of the nation’s top cable operator, amid rising criticism from its rivals over the deal. In early November, SK Telecom struck a deal [...]