SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Those aged over 40 are the primary clients for handsets provided by low-cost mobile carriers, industry data showed Friday. The budget mobile carriers called “thrift phone operators” refer to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that rent networks from the country’s three carriers: SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that cell phone prices in Korea are higher than anywhere else in the world. According to Gartner, a market research company, cell phone prices in Korea were highest among the 29 members of the OECD. Also, prices of smart phones ranked second. From 2011 to 2014, 27 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 31, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been two weeks since three major mobile telecommunications companies were ordered to suspend their business for offering illegal subsidies to consumers. The mobile phone retail market has been frozen solid ever since in Korea. From the beginning of the suspension on March 13 to March [...]