SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With smartphone use soon to be allowed on all military bases in April, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense is considering the introduction of a special mobile rate plan that provides unlimited data and phone calls to soldiers. “We are currently working with mobile carriers to introduce a special mobile [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of two mobile customers in South Korea say their mobile plan is too expensive. Rep. Kim Kyung-jin, member of the Committee on Science Technology, Broadcasting, and Communication at the National Assembly, conducted an online study to gauge the perception of current mobile plans. In the study, 50 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A study conducted by the Green Consumer Network in Korea and Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Park Hong-keun revealed that 75.3 percent of South Korean adults (1,000 surveyed) feel burdened by their telecommunications expenses. One third of the respondents said their cell phone bills had increased under the current [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report noted that a monthly average of 4.5GB of data is used by Korean smartphone users. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in its ‘Wireless Data Traffic Statistics’, the average monthly data usage of LTE smartphone subscribers increased from 4.14GB in January to 4.52GB [...]