KT and Samsung are getting ready to launch a new 3W handset called Samsung SPH-M8400. 3W means that the M8400 features WCDMA, Wi-Fi and WiBro (South Korea’s own version of WiMax). The M8400 is Samsung’s second WiBro-enabled handset, after the SCH-M8300 model, and KT expects it to boost wireless Internet usage. The new smartphone will allow users

If you ask about what telecom technology that is becoming new hit in Korea, the answer will be VoIP. Voice over Internet Protocol has proven new concept on quite reliable technology with cheaper price. From Oct 31, number portability for VoIP in Korea has began to apply, which means that people were able to change their ...

The Korean “FCC”, Korea Communication Commission (KCC), has approved the implementation of Voice over WiBro starting next year. The idea is quite similar with VoIP, but it’s over WiBro (known also as mobile WiMAX). Last year, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has included the South Korea’s WiBro technology as one of its 3G communications standards. Samsung

KTF, South Korea’s second largest mobile operator, announced its plans to debut a pilot mobile service that will use WiBro, the homegrown, improved version of WiMax. The new service will be launched sometime in November 2009 and it should allow customers to make voice calls at cheaper rates and, thus, to promote the use of WiBro. At

We've yet to hear any definitive plans out of Sprint for getting voice flowing over WiMAX-equipped handsets in the States, but it's bound to happen eventually -- and South Korea, one of the torchbearers of the standard with its long-operating WiBro network, is kicking off the party. The Korea Communication Commission has officially ratified a spec for voice over WiBro with service expect...

  We’ve already caught few glimpses of KT SHOWs Omnia (SPH-M8400) boasting WiBro, Wi-Fi, WCDMA and now they’ve announced to begin shipping the device to corporate customers. In addition to the regular voice/data plans, KT is offering a smartphone plan that will allow a user to enjoy Wi-Fi at KT WiFi Zone hotspots and WiBro covered ...

The largest South Korean operator, Korea Telecom reported that has signed an agreement with Apple. By its terms, Apple should introduce chips WiBro (Korean version of mobile WiMAX) in notebooks and players, which it supplies to South Korea. The transaction is an experienced, the nature of the test, the company noted. Thus, the module will be installed in a WiBro MacBook and iPod for Korea Telecom....

South Korea officials say the country’s mobile WiMax licenses should be revoked and other sanctions imposed because the country is not getting the rollout citizens were promised, Light Reading reports. In 2005, Korea Telecom, primarily a landline phone/broadband company, along with Hanaro Telecom (now SK Broadband), and SK Telecom (a cellular operator with 50% market

Launched in 2006 in the South Korean market, WiBro now covers around 50 percent of nation's population. The country's two WiBro operators, KT and SK Telecom, expect to cover the vast majority of South Koreans by 2011. FierceWireless Managing Editor Mike Dano is in South Korea, and he got a first-hand look at the country's mobile WiMAX service. Slideshow

Clearwire often dominates news about mobile WiMAX here in the United States. However, in South Korea, where operators KT and SK Telecom are three years into their mobile WiMAX deployments, there is a different story. Launched in 2006, WiBro (the South Korean brand for WiMAX) now covers around 50 percent of South Korea's population, and the nation's two WiMAX operators expect to cove...