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The Mobile TV users surpass 6-millions in Korea

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) users surpassed 6-million. This figure means 1.3 out of 10 Koreans has DMB player.According to the survey announced on June 14th by the Ministry of information and Communication, after DMB service started on 2005, the number of TDMB players sold is 5.3 million and the subscribers of SDMB service is 1.1 million. That means total users of DMB service reaches about 6.5 million during just 2 years.

The number of Terrestrial DMB (TDMB) players sold, which is consisted of 2.4 million (44.2%) in Navigation, 2.1 million (38.5%) in Mobile phone and 1 million (17.3%) in PMP and USB, was almost doubled this year.

The subscribers of Satellite DMB (SDMB) players is consisted of 1.1 million (96%) in Mobile phone and 40 thousand (4%) in Navigation.

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How Koreans watch TV on Mobile phone

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Have you ever regret after missing your favourite TV programme while you were stuck in the heavy traffic? Have you ever supposed it would be much better if you have your own TV and thus not fighting for the TV with your brother or sister?

If yes, here is good news. As long as you possess you can watch TV with mobile phone.

There are mainly two different kinds in Korea but this video demonstrates the streaming type. The newly rolled out HSDPA technology (called SHOW or 3G+) helps to upgrade the service quality significantly.

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Mobile Cyworld in Korea

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Cyworld, Korean based social networking service, is the one of the most successful ones in the world. In the past, PC and proper internet access were required to use Cyworld. However, today’s cutting edge mobile technology actually extends its reach to everyone’s pocket. In other words, we can ubiquitously access to Cyworld with our mobile phone. No more boundaries exist between wired and wireless services.

I uploaded a picture to my cyworld through my PC and checked it through my mobile phone.

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