Posted in iPhone in S.Korea, iPhone Korea on Apr 1st, 2010
Apple’s official carrier in South Korea, KT, revealed yesterday that iPhone has now surpassed the half-million (500,000) sales mark. This makes South Korea, a nation with 47 million total mobile subscribers, number 8 globally in first year iPhone sales. KT is understandably delighted. According to Pyo Hyun-myung, president of the mobile business group at KT; There [...]
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Posted in iPhone, iPhone in S.Korea on Dec 8th, 2009
South Korean carrier KT has a hit on their hands! The iPhone is in hot demand and authorized retailers are quickly selling out of their allocations. The popularity of iPhone has taken many South Korean technology pundits by surprise. Particularly given the mobile phone hegemony heretofore enjoyed by South Korean handset manufacturers Samsung and LG. An [...]
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Posted in iPhone in S.Korea on Sep 22nd, 2009
Update – Sept. 23, 2009: The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has now cleared the path for iPhone’s entry into South Korea. In a ruling today, the KCC will allow iPhone to be sold without imposition of special licensing or server location requirements that had previously been under consideration due to iPhone’s mapping capabilities (e.g. location-based [...]
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