SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Since the government introduced on October 1 a new law intended to improve the mobile phone handset retail structure, it seems the new phone device demand has finally recovered the pre-October level. Market watchers said this is largely because of the effect of the new Apple iPhone 6 to debut [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – As KT loses in a Supreme Court case in protest of a lower court decision that endorsed 2012 sanctions by the Ministry of Defense against the telecom firm, it won’t be able to take part in government-commissioned biddings for the next six months. The Supreme Court justices said on October 24, “It is clear that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s mobile telecom service operators have for years spent fortunes on marketing to attract more subscribers. A parliamentary investigation revealed that the three service providers including SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus have poured in 3.5 trillion won in advertising and other promotions almost for the past five years. According to [...]
“In the upcoming 5G era, you will be connected with the whole world through your friend Avatar who will guide you through the virtual world. A world in which I become the center of everything, that’s the 5G era.” “The vision of ‘Living in the Cloud’ seeks to create a world in which myriads of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s “Fin-tech” industry seems to be a next big-thing in the national financial and mobile industry, simple and easy mobile payment solutions are being introduced in a row. And LG UPlus, South Korea’s No.3 wireless carrier, also jumps into the fray, betting conventional authentication systems using pin [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will change the procedure for applying for a new mobile telecom service operator as there have been many instances in which fly-by-night operators formed consortiums with like-minded business enterprises and made repeated applications. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on October 1 that a new electric and [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Wireless network is getting smarter. As the data load increases, the network assigns more data so that users can enjoy better, faster services without video interruption. It seems the era of “video LTE” is at hand. LG Uplus said on September 17 that it has successfully developed an intelligent network platform jointly [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus announced that it succeeded in adopting “Software Defined Network/Open Flow (SDN/OF)” technology into commercial network for the first time in Korea together with local network device provider Ubiquoss. The SDN/OF is a next-generation network technology enabling the network operators to separate software from “L3 Switch” and control hardware [...]
![[Photo] LG Uplus Rolls Out Upgraded Version of Home Monitoring Service MomCa 2](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mamca2.jpg "[Photo] LG Uplus Rolls Out Upgraded Version of Home Monitoring Service MomCa 2")
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus introduced MomCa 2, a sequel to its home surveillance technology MomCa. With the 100Mbps WiFi bundled with the home surveillance camera for real-time monitoring, users can check with what is going on inside their houses using their mobile handsets with a high-definition video. Advanced angle control — up [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Out of 800 billion won of membership points provided by three mobile telecom service firms a year, as much as 500 billion won ended up disappearing without being used. According to Congressman Jun Byung-hun (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) who is a member of the Science, ICT, Future Planning, [...]