SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will sell the industry’s first smartwatch that runs on the long-term evolution (LTE) network, nearly six months after it was showcased. The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, to be released in South Korea this week, is significant as it does not need to link to [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has commenced sales of its second flip-style smartphone in line with its struggles to diversify its handset portfolio amid ailing sales. The Galaxy Folder, which boasts a 3.8-inch display, will come in two editions that run on the third-generation and [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier, said Monday it has created a new mobile network that offers gigabyte (GB) speed to customers, as it takes a step closer to the next-generation 5G network. The Giga-LTE service can achieve a peak speed of 1.17 gigabytes per second (Gbps), 15 [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will start selling a new rate plan that offers unlimited calls and text messages and charges only based on the amount of downloaded data, joining the race with two local rivals as mobile trends shift to data-focused services. The [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, LG Uplus, said Wednesday it has launched a smart-car management system that runs on the long-term evolution (LTE) network, providing users with real-time information related to their automobiles to ensure safer driving. Dubbed Telematics in Athena (TiA), the service allows users to check [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said Korea’s mobile telecom service providers need to embrace a new trend among mobile subscribers to use more data while relying less on voice services. According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute on July 4 in a report “The Impact of Increasing Mobile Data Traffic on Voice Traffic” by [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom will build a full-fledged 3-band LTE-A network. The leading mobile carrier will begin its construction work on LTE base stations from Busan, Gwangju and Seoul utilizing 2.1-GHz band and 10-MHz bandwidths. SK Telecom already established 2.1-GHz LTE base stations for test in Busan area. Those 2.1-GHz LTE stations [...]