The mobile and entertainment industries are increasingly merging and next week, from December 5th to 7th, a very interesting mobile and media business conference sponsored by Informa telecoms & media is about to take place in Suntec/Singapore. On Wednesday the “mobile TV Asia Summit” is taking place, followed by the two days event of “Mobile […]
As you might know approximately one month ago we had presidential primaries of one party in which voting via SMS was allowed. Moreover the upcoming presidential election (held mid December) will be the first one with a reduced voting age (19 instead of 20 years of age). These two factors have increased the importance of […]
Android the open source operating system for mobile devices is cheered throughout Western media. It is considered as a milestone which will lower production cost for handsets (and thus for consumers), enlarge potential markets for developers (because they will not need to focus on one manufacturer) and at the same time educate consumers to finally […]
Recently the National Internet Development Agency of Korea conducted a survey about mobile internet usage among 3000 Koreans aged 12-59. In the last year approx. 27% of all participants used mobile internet at least once a month and 22% used their mobile to access it. Moreover Koreans use mobile internet quite long, with almost 40% […]
Many people from all over the world claim that Korea is the most strong player in Mobile TV. True. But by what means?
If we look at the numbers of who use mobile TV in Korea, the answer is ‘YES’. (Now more than 7 million people watch mobile TV in Korea). From the point of profitable […]
A lot of people in Europe and the U.S. are wondering which contents will become the “killer content” for mobile TV, which will make people embrace this new service. As you might know mobile TV has been introduced in Korea in 2005 and as of today has approximately 7 million users (2 million S-DMB / […]
T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) Phone meets the golden age. In second quarter, the sales of T-DMB Phone increased about 3.4% comparing to first quarter.
That is interesting results because total number of 3G service phone user keep increasing and KTF, one of MNO in Korea, focus their capability on 3G services such as Video call.
However, […]
