2010년 8월 5일 목요일

iPhone-backed KT flexes mobile muscle


KT’s release of the Apple iPhone appears to be reshaping the Korean telecommunications market irrevocably, while allowing the company to leverage its fixed-line dominance over the mobile market. / Korea Times file


The plot had remained the same for years ― KT, the huge but boring telecommunications giant, being repeatedly pummeled by its smaller and cooler rival, SK Telecom, in a competition that mirrored that of Tom and Jerry's.

However, it now appears that KT is finally fighting back with pace and purpose, imposing a serious challenge on SK Telecom's supremacy in mobile telephony by wielding the planet's hottest electronic gadget.

Since absorbing its mobile telephony unit, KTF, coming into 2009, KT, the country's largest telephone and broadband Internet provider, had focused on leveraging its fixed-line dominance to the wireless market.

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