SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp. said Wednesday it has partnered with the U.S. chip giant Intel Corp. to develop an ecosystem for high-end fifth-generation (5G) technology. South Korea’s No. 2 mobile carrier will cooperate in delivering innovative solutions for 5G with a foundation of Intel architecture, according to the company’s press release. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The starting price of South Korea’s first auction for high-end fifth-generation network frequencies scheduled for this week is expected to be set at around 3.3 trillion won (US$3 billion), industry insiders said Thursday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the country’s three mobile carriers — SK Telecom Co., [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half (51%) of businesses are expected to adopt cloud Unified Communications (UCaaS/Hosted PBX) by 2020, surpassing premise-based PBX as businesses of all sizes shift to the cloud for unified communications, team collaboration and contact center services, according to the 2nd Annual BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSFT) survey of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s three mobile carriers are estimated to have posted an improved ratio of operating income to total revenue in the third quarter, industry sources said Sunday, as the firms reduced marketing expenditures. The combined sales posted by SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. are estimated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire)–The number of SK Telecom customers that selected a 20 percent discount for their monthly charges instead of financial support for a new device has exceeded one million. The ‘Discount Equal to Financial Support’ is a system that provides a discount on communications fees for new customers who don’t receive financial [...]
CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new 2G, 3G, LTE Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers in Brazil market share and forecast report, which tracks GSM, W-CDMA, and LTE equipment and mobile subscribers in Brazil. ANALYST NOTE “Despite the size of the country and its economic clout, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on September 12 that it has launched a new rate scheme “T LifePack” that allows smartphone users to watch videos up to 140 hours a month. At 9,000 won a month, T LifePack plan subscribers can use 62-gigabytes of data a month (about 2 gigabytes a [...]