SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the three major telecom operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus closing the gap in affordable pricing for phones and rate plans since last September, South Korea’s mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) are increasingly losing customers while simultaneously failing to attract new users. Unlike the triumvirate of traditional [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of LINE messenger users operated by the Japanese arm of South Korea’s top portal provider Naver Corp. has surpassed the 1 billion mark five years after its launch in 2011, the company said Thursday. The number of monthly active users, or MAU, of the social networking mobile application stood at 215 million globally as of [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom slipped below a 50 percent share in the domestic market for the first time in 13 years in February, data showed Wednesday. According to data compiled by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, SK Telecom had 49.6 percent of the [...]