KT will triple the speed of the internet at some Starbucks Korea branches starting today. The company announced Monday that it will offer 10 GiGA Wi-Fi services at three Starbucks Korea branches. The cafes are in the Jongro Tower in central Seoul and COEX and…
Two of Korea’s three major telecom carriers are presumed to have posted weaker earnings for the April-June period from a year earlier, industry watchers said Sunday, apparently on increased mobile user discounts and changed financial reporting standards.…
Construction work on Apple Korea’s first flagship store in Seoul is set to be completed just before Christmas. On a 1300sqm site in fashionable Sinsa-dong, the two-storey Apple Store will feature an exterior glass wall. “The construction work that started in…
The Internet of Things will represent a $1.8 trillion revenue opportunity for mobile operators by 2026, thanks in part by the early deployment of commercial low power wide area (LPWA) networks in licensed spectrum, according to the GSMA. Research conducted…
South Korea’s KT is in the final stages of testing for the 5G trial network that will support next year’s Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang. Technology partner Ericsson announced that the companies have recently agreed on the details of the planned…
Two consortiums, led by South Korean Internet giant Kakao and No. 2 telecom operator KT, were approved to launch the nation’s first Internet-only banks next year, the banking authority said Sunday. Under the government’s pilot program, the two banks will…
Korea’s three largest mobile network operators – SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus – are to merge their individual app stores to create a new destination One Store. The combining of the offers of T Store, Olleh Market and U Plus Store will represent a significant…