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, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Based on its advanced LTE technology, LG Uplus has introduced state-of-the-art video-on-demand service lineups including Netflix-like movie streaming service UflixMovie. The third-largest mobile carrier in Korea announced on June 23 that it would start offering new services based on its LTE-A network from July. The new services include the movie streaming [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the successful global debut of the new F Series at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), LG continues to strengthen its presence in 4G LTE markets with the global launch of F70. The F70 will be introduced to millions of LTE customers from early May starting in Europe, [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus announced that it rolled out the world’s first LTE-based security control service applied by “M2M platform” jointly with security company ADT Caps. Through the partnership, the Korea’s third largest mobile telecommunications carrier which fortified the world’s first nationwide LTE network achieved recognition in its advanced LTE technology and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 29, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)– As KT starts operating alone in Korea’s mobile telecommunications market as the company is the last runner for a series of suspensions ordered by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, a big change is expected in the market dynamics. KT seems quite determined to make up [...]
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SEOUL, Korea, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – To a decision by three mobile telecom service providers on April 2 to offer their LTE customers unlimited data rates, stock analysts were mixed in their verdict. Some said it was one of the worst moves for their bottom line while still others suggested it could be an [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – From April 1, 3G and LTE mobile phone service users whose phone number doesn’t begins with “010″ (011, 016, 017, 018, and 019) will get no voice and text services any longer. The number of the unfortunate users is 2,155. That’s because the government’s extended offer to change the [...]