SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG UPlus, a South Korean wireless carrier, has launched a unique mobile application which can be used as a portable radio transceiver, enabling communication between up to 500 users at the same time across the globe. The carrier announced on January 25 that once the U+ LTE Radio Transceiver [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 12, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today unveiled the new Galaxy A7, one of the slimmest Galaxy smartphones equipped with premium hardware for a superior social experience. Combining powerful multitasking performance with sophisticated design, the Galaxy A7 expands on the popular services provided by the Galaxy A5 and A3, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — KT said on December 3 that it has developed a “Giga Microwave” technology that’s ten times faster than the current 100-Mbps services to be deployed in remote rural areas where fiber-optic cables are infeasible. In remote areas, wireless microwave technology is much more economical than fiber-optic connections. But the problem [...]
Seoul, Korea, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it successfully developed and commercialized a technology that makes 2G and 3G services possible through LTE network for the first time in the world. Named ‘2G/3G over LTE,’ the technology enhances the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks by utilizing LTE network as backhaul [...]
“We are currently reviewing an idea of selling a new foreign brand smartphone in addition to the iPhone 6 as a way to give our customers more choice. As long as the issues of quality commensurate with customers’ expectations and the device’s warranty services are adequately addressed, there would be little problem in introducing the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – As Korea’s mobile carriers rolled out their 4G unlimited data plans, 4G data traffic has been hiking at a drastic speed, according to local sources. According to the report on October 4 published by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning about mobile phones’ data traffic during this [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the company has been awarded “Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network – Operator” at the prestigious LTE Asia 2014 event held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. LTE Asia, organized by Informa Telecoms and Media, is Asia’s leading 4G event. [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Freedom Foundation will form a consortium to establish a new mobile telecom service provider. The right-wing organization said on September 23 in a press release, “In response to the Park Geun-hye government’s election pledge to cut mobile calling rate by a half and a 30-percent cut in mobile [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwie) ― In an effort to expand its leadership in LTE from smartphones to tablets, LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled an LTE version of the G Pad 8.0, offering blazing fast outdoor connectivity and portability for on-the-go media consumption. The LG G Pad 8.0 LTE offers the right balance of performance and [...]
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 [...]