SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The three major mobile carriers in South Korea are scrambling to install indoor telecommunications equipment to enable the use of 5G networks in buildings later this year. Since becoming the world’s first to successfully commercialize 5G services, the three mobile carriers have been focusing on expanding the network to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of major tech companies and financial institutions have joined hands to launch a blockchain-based digital identity platform available on smartphones to provide a trustworthy and secure solution, they said Sunday. Samsung Electronics Co., three mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s first commercial 5G services are expanding their presence in South Korea, with the number of users of the faster mobile networks rising at an eye-popping pace since their launch in April. But local carriers face the daunting task of improving service quality to meet the high expectations [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. has offered to carry out a set of voluntary corrective measures, an official said Thursday, in an apparent move to end a legal dispute over its alleged violation of competition law. Apple Korea is suspected of having required South [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Huawei crisis is having an impact on the heads of South Korea’s top three mobile carriers – SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. – as they have decided not to participate in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2019 scheduled for June 25 to 27. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Now that South Korea has won the much-coveted crown of the world’s “first” to launch 5G commercial service, it is time to improve the service’s quality and create lucrative business models to lead the way in the global 5G race, market watchers said Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S10 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Becoming the first country in the world to roll out commercial 5G services with a dedicated smartphone is a milestone for South Korea, but the key to staying ahead of the pack lies in creating stable revenue streams, market watchers said Thursday. South Korea’s three telecom companies simultaneously kicked [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is poised to approve the new fifth-generation (5G) mobile network rate plan by mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. later this week, industry sources said Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT received the application from the mobile carrier on Monday and is forecast to make the final [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers are actively joining efforts to cut greenhouse gases in a bid to boost their eco-friendly image and earn carbon credits for the 5G era, industry sources said Thursday. Top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and nine other affiliates of SK Group have decided to [...]