SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KT’s new data-centric mobile phone plans have attracted more than 100,000 new subscribers only four days after their launch, said the company on May 12. The new plan’s prices are proportional to the amount of data offered, differentiating them from other plans based on talk minutes or text messaging. [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwirep) — South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier KT said Monday it has won a US$101 million deal from Uzbekistan to provide a smart-energy solutions system that improves efficiency of power management. Under the contract with state-owned power generation company Uzbekenergo, KT will supply energy-metering solutions, such as the Advanced Electricity Metering, that [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — As Koreans increasingly use their cell phones for data rather than making phone calls and texting, KT launched a new service that provides LTE data at price points from 20,000 won to 50,000 won, including unlimited talking and texting. Mobile phone rates in Korea are usually proportional to voice minutes [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a May 3 announcement from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the number of budget phone service subscribers surpassed the 5 million mark as of April 21. Reaching the 5 million mark means that mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are hitting their stride as meaningful competitors [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 smartphone maker, said Wednesday it will roll out its latest budget smartphone that comes with a larger display than its flagship models, as part of a bid to target global consumers who favor a big screen in the mid- to low-end market. The [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government has finally had enough of the three major mobile carriers’ habitual practice of collecting fingerprint information by scanning the back of customers’ ID cards as an identity verification measure. Fingerprint information is found on the back of all Korean ID cards, and the total number of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have been enticing Korean customers to get rid of their old phones, the number of subscribers changing carriers was 63 percent higher than usual last weekend. According to mobile industry sources, the number of subscriber switches for the major carriers on April [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s mobile carriers said Monday they will accept preorders for Samsung Electronics‘ latest high-end smartphone models — the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge – this week, adding that the models will be available for use on April 10. SK Telecom, the country’s leading mobile carrier, said subscribers can make orders [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom slipped below a 50 percent share in the domestic market for the first time in 13 years in February, data showed Wednesday. According to data compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, SK Telecom had 49.6 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The three biggest mobile network operators in Korea, SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have joined forces to launch a unified app store platform, One Store, in a move that will combine their current offerings, T Store, Olleh Market and U Plus Store. The three mobile operators invited 350 app developers [...]