TK Insight

Wi-Fi Zones Quickly Increasing

Due to fierce competition over the smartphone market, mobile carriers are in a hurry to expand public Wi-Fi zones.

KT has succeeded in establishing 27,000 Wi-Fi zones by this July, five months earlier than its original plan. KT's Qook & Show zones are now twice as numerous as at the end of last year. Recently, KT also featured a Wi-Fi Street, which provides wireless Internet in crowded streets, such as the COEX mall in southern Seoul.

Korean Version of MobileMe Rushing

With the rapid expansion of smartphone users, mobile carriers are rushing to introduce a personal cloud computing service similar to Apple's MobileMe.

While SK Telecom announced in April that it will offer a new service allowing users to share data across diverse computing devices in the later half of this year, KT and LG Uplus have introduced a Korean version of MobileMe services.