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, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus, Korea’s top-three mobile telecom operator, said on August 26 that it has begun commercial service of “U+ NaviReal,” the world’s first video-type navigator. The users of the existing app can get an update of the service while those new users can download the app from U+ Store or [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Paynow Plus offered by LG Uplus seems to lead the online payment service market. On August 13, LG Uplus announced that it launched a new online payment service, which met the strict standards set by the Financial Supervisory Service in terms of authentication and payment processes, security and safety, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) —LG Uplus announced on August 10 that it is launching a new TV commercial for its “LTE Live Broadcasting” service, which allows users to broadcast video feeds from the smartphone to their living room in real time for the first time in the world. LTE Live Broadcasting is the world’s first [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Pantech, Korea’s third-largest mobile handset manufacturer after Samsung and LG, petitioned to the President following its appeals to three mobile telecom service operators for help. The Council of Pantech’s Partner Companies said on August 5 in a statement addressed to President Park Geun-hye, “We implore you to consider our predicament. Without [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s two major mobile telecom service operators, KT and LG Uplus, are expected to get penalized for using their dominant market power in the enterprise messaging service market. According to industry sources on July 11, the Fair Trade Commission has recently completed its investigation on the two companies upon reports that [...]