05/17/2011
Bloomberg – Seoul Bureau
May 17 (Bloomberg) — SK Telecom Co. may win a permit to operate services in Brazil, the nation’s communications minister said, as South Korea’s largest mobile-phone company seeks to expand abroad.
SK Telecom will aim to offer fourth-generation mobile phone services in Brazil, Paulo Bernardo said in an interview in Brasilia. The [...]
04/05/2011
TelecomAsia.net
South Korea’s three operators are each desperate for spectrum as the mobile data race intensifies in the country.
Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, and LG U+ each claim they deserve the right to 20Mhz of spectrum in the 2.1GHz band, which the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) is putting up for auction by June this year, Korea [...]
09/2011
Register, The
Japan’s DoCoMo is going to work with South Korea’s KT to create a cross-border payment infrastructure, coming in from the cold to embrace and extend the NFC standard.
The service is expected to launch around the end of next year, and support existing payment applications including BitWallet’s Edy in Japan and KT’s ticketing system [...]
02/01/2010
IDG News Service – TAIPEI BUREAU
U.S. wireless technology developer Qualcomm plans to build a research and development center in South Korea and invest in Pulsus Technologies, a local chip maker.
The R&D center is being built in cooperation with South Korean academic, government and corporate institutions and will focus on next generation mobile communications technology, [...]
01/13/2010
Financial Times
LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it aimed to overtake local rival Samsung Electronics to become the world’s number two mobile phone maker by 2012 as the South Korean group moved to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing smartphone business.
Last year, LG continued to expand its global market share to about 10 per [...]
01/05/2010
Seoul Economic Daily
“When it comes to a business, you always have to look and say what are other people not-what do they believe-what’s wrong about they believe and then find another area. You need the blue ocean.”
Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, leader of mobile chip industry had a interview with Seoul Economic Daily [...]
10/19/2009
Korea Times
SEOGWIPO, Jeju Island ― Qualcomm confirmed its commitment to invest in local start-ups involved in wireless technologies, saying its level of investment could range from $500,000 to $10 million depending on the upside potential of the given project.
The San Diego-based chipmaker, which is one of the leading providers of microchips used in mobile [...]
