Mobile phone industry in South Korea

The mobile phone industry in South Korea is described in this article.

History

Mobile phone service providers

There are three mobile phone service providers.

Korea Telecom (KT) in 2002 absorbed KT Freetel (KTF), its mobile phone service provider, and offers its services, using HSPA and LTE networks. It is currently deploying an LTE network.
LG U Plus (LG U+), a member of LG Group, also provides CDMA2000 and LTE networks.
SK Telecom (SKT) of SK Group also offers its service, using CDMA2000, HSPA and LTE networks.

There market shares of the three companies are believed to be: SK Telecom's 50 percent, Korea Telecom's 30 percent and LG Telecom's 20 percent.[4]

Mobile phone industry

In South Korea, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) is the telecommunications authority.

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) supports Qualcomm's research and development of CDMA and CDMA2000 technology.

Regarding the Korean mobile phone industry's overseas experiences, SK Telecom has helped the first mobile phone service companies in Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, etc. In China, it helped China Unicom's CDMA implementation, both technically and financially.

Handset

Samsung and LG have the largest market shares in Korea. Nokia already discontinued its sales operations in Korea.

See also

References



This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/24/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.