SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As cases of missing dementia patients increase, the Korean government is teaming up with police services and a mobile carrier to develop a location position system to easily track down lost patients. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning signed an MoU with SK Telecom, Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean mobile carriers have seen an increase in voice phone calls after they introduced data-oriented rate plans. However, the increased phone calls are not expected to affect their revenue negatively, industry watchers have said. According to telecom industry analysts, the top three mobile carriers including SK Telecom, KT and LG [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile giant SK Telecom said Sunday it has joined the LoRa Alliance, the largest consolidated effort by industry leaders to enable the Internet of Things (IoT). The company also unveiled plans to promote the trial launch of diverse ‘Internet of Small Things’ services. SK Telecom said it [...]
Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Attendance is checked automatically when you enter a classroom. When you pass a grocery store, you receive a text message including electronic coupons. In a foreign country, you can receive information without a sightseeing guide. With the adoption of ‘beacons’ – near field communication devices – smartphone users can [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – ICT service provider SK Networks Service threw down the gauntlet to the mobile game industry by picking mobile gaming as its new growth engine. Seo Bo-kook, CEO of SK Networks Service, said at a press conference announcing its new business plan, “We picked content services, especially mobile gaming, as [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics, South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant, said Wednesday it will roll out this week a budget smartphone with a high-performance camera and speakers with a price tag of around 394,800 won (US$356.56). Dubbed the LG Band Play, the smartphone comes with a 13-megapixel rear camera and a [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — KT, South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier, said Monday it has created a new mobile network that offers gigabyte (GB) speed to customers, as it takes a step closer to the next-generation 5G network. The Giga-LTE service can achieve a peak speed of 1.17 gigabytes per second (Gbps), 15 [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carriers said Wednesday they have opened a unified app store for their smartphone users, as part of an effort to bolster their presence in the growing app content sector dominated by two app giants: Google and Apple. The One Store is a consolidated mobile version of [...]
Seoul, Korea, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Rohde & Schwarz, a leading manufacturer of electronic test and measurement equipment, to collaboratively develop key network technologies for 5G. Under the MOU, SK Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz will measure and analyze radio [...]