SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major mobile carriers continue to outperform global competitors by a wide margin, posting download speeds more than three times faster than those in other leading countries, according to a new industry report released Monday. The Korea Telecommunications Operators Association (KTOA) said the nation’s mobile networks recorded an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Tuesday that it had developed wireless backhaul technology that supports 25-gigabits per second (Gbps) service. Backhaul refers to the transmission network that connects the peripheral networks around base stations with backbone networks. Wired backhauls that use fiber optic cables or [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) has claimed that South Korea’s three major telecommunications companies — KT Corp., LG Uplus Corp., and SK Broadband Inc. — are discriminating against South Korean firms by collecting minimal fees from Google, Facebook, Netflix, and other foreign content providers for accessing their [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to require all communication facilities to install bypass networks in case of serious disruptions to its operations following a transceiver station fire at the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier KT Corp., officials said Thursday. A set of countermeasures to strengthen communication facility management was drafted by [...]