SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s mobile carriers said Friday their first preorder batch of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone X smartphones were sold out in a few minutes after being launched here, apparently due to supply shortages. No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said it sold the first batch [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top three mobile carriers will team up with Naver, the country’s leading Internet service provider, to launch a unified app store, company officials said Thursday. SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. already have a combined app retail channel: One Store. A subsidiary of SK Telecom, which [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare joint publicity stunt, South Korea’s two smaller mobile carriers placed an ad in 29 major newspapers late last month to denounce industry leader SK Telecom Co.‘s push to buy the country’s top cable TV operator. “We request that SK Telecom give up on a harmful acquisition [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Friday they have indicted South Korea’s three mobile carriers on charges of violating a law strictly banning excessive discounts or subsidies to customers. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said the carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. – are accused of paying subsidies far over [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two tech giants — SK Telecom Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. – will team up with a local city government to construct an Internet of Things (IoT) trial town, officials said Monday. They plan to install the IoT infrastructure across Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to be designated [...]