SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s smallest mobile carrier, LG Uplus Corp., said Monday it has agreed with Nokia to join hands in developing the fifth-generation (5G) network technologies, which is set to emerge as the new industrial standard in the near future. Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU), LG and Nokia will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of discount phone users reached more than 7 million in 2015 from 4.6 million in 2014. According to industry experts, the share of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) is expected to grow to 12 percent of the total mobile carrier market. Due to the recently modified law on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As cyber-attacks such as the breach of the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company’s systems by an unidentified hacker group increase, the South Korean government is stepping up its efforts to check emergency response plans in the private sector. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus said on December 22 that it has developed Korea’s first system to block spam text messages with commercial images. The system will be linked to the Korea Internet & Security Agency’s spam blocking server that stores 130,000 spam images. An image-based spam is a kind of spam [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – For two days since October 31 when all three mobile telecom service operators began offering iPhone 6 for new subscribers, only LG Uplus was able to show subscriber number increase by a large margin. In the number portability sweepstake launched in earnest after the October 31 introduction of the iPhone 6 [...]
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 [...]