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]]> By: {im@ no jaz} » Blog Archive » mobile show http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-45626 {im@ no jaz} » Blog Archive » mobile show Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:13:25 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-45626 [...] using my australian mobile phone’s proving to be exorbitant, and i’m going to be here for a while, so i’ve decided to get a korean mobile phone… yes! very excited. currently it’s very cheap to get a phone if one’s prepared to subscribe to KTF or LGT. SKT, once the most popular, has been losing popularity for a while, especially since the launch of KTF’s new 3G+ service, Show (but largely because the concurrent ‘free phone offers’ for those who’s bringing their numbers over to KTF; LGT offer the same kind of deals, but people don’t seem to have much respect for this company that started with PCS phone services). i’ve previously talked - briefly - about how video call was painted to be the next big thing in Korea, and yes, Show’s mainly about that. however, as i’ve found out by talking to my friends here, it’s still considered to be ‘too expensive’ and thus ‘not worth it’ - as a video phone user (of a few years), i’m not surprised. i never really liked and rarely used the feature. let us be private multitaskers as we are and desire to be, perhaps ;) [...] [...] using my australian mobile phone’s proving to be exorbitant, and i’m going to be here for a while, so i’ve decided to get a korean mobile phone… yes! very excited. currently it’s very cheap to get a phone if one’s prepared to subscribe to KTF or LGT. SKT, once the most popular, has been losing popularity for a while, especially since the launch of KTF’s new 3G+ service, Show (but largely because the concurrent ‘free phone offers’ for those who’s bringing their numbers over to KTF; LGT offer the same kind of deals, but people don’t seem to have much respect for this company that started with PCS phone services). i’ve previously talked - briefly - about how video call was painted to be the next big thing in Korea, and yes, Show’s mainly about that. however, as i’ve found out by talking to my friends here, it’s still considered to be ‘too expensive’ and thus ‘not worth it’ - as a video phone user (of a few years), i’m not surprised. i never really liked and rarely used the feature. let us be private multitaskers as we are and desire to be, perhaps ;) [...]

]]> By: jaz http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-6442 jaz Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:31:05 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-6442 that's right. good point. i'm really keen to play with the now readily and cheaply available WiBro connections. No doubt it will open up spaces for the already saturated broadband market in korea! :D that’s right. good point. i’m really keen to play with the now readily and cheaply available WiBro connections. No doubt it will open up spaces for the already saturated broadband market in korea! :D

]]> By: hanna http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-5252 hanna Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:55:17 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-5252 hi jaz, ah, crazy weddings! hope it went smoothly... another reason for mobile internet (non)usage is also the fact that korean telcos and mobile providers are totally invested in hsdpa, so mobile internet (wap) would quash that. so, hsdpa is what gets offered at the more affordable rate, thereby killing any consumer interest in shelling out for mobile internet. oh those self-interested telcos... hi jaz,

ah, crazy weddings! hope it went smoothly…

another reason for mobile internet (non)usage is also the fact that korean telcos and mobile providers are totally invested in hsdpa, so mobile internet (wap) would quash that. so, hsdpa is what gets offered at the more affordable rate, thereby killing any consumer interest in shelling out for mobile internet. oh those self-interested telcos…

]]> By: jaz http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-5138 jaz Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:22:26 +0000 http://www.nicemustard.com/2007/01/03/finger-point-on-your-mobile/#comment-5138 Hi Hanna! Will definitely call you when I get to Seoul. My sister's wedding's on this weekend, and there are so many things going on down here, so I find it impossible to go up to Seoul at the moment :( For example, I've been helping my mum cook all morning for Jesa. I smell like oil - like a giant oil monster! I'll probably go up late Jan/early Feb. Hope you'll have some time to see me then! I think PC Bangs are doing ok down here as well. I just feel that the rate at which they were growing before appears to have decreased somewhat. It's the winter holidays as well, so I expected them to be a bit more crowded and lively. And some of them have closed down, so I'm trying to see what's going on. I've explored almost all of them around my neighbourhood, and also checked out a few in businer shopping suburbs, but haven't spoken to the people working there or anything. I intend to soon - everything will just have to wait until after my sister's wedding :) My previous study on Cyworld showed that the main reason why people didn't want to go online via their mobile phones was the cost - especially when there are so many cheap and/or free broadband connections available everywhere... it would be crazy to use their mobiles and pay...! Finally Koreans will have an option to have a "communication bundles" which combines telephone, mobile, internet, IPTV etc soon. And mobile data services are about to be cheaper (by 30%), so I assume the mobile-net take up will start its interesting momentum particualarly with DMB and WiBro etc :) Hi Hanna! Will definitely call you when I get to Seoul. My sister’s wedding’s on this weekend, and there are so many things going on down here, so I find it impossible to go up to Seoul at the moment :( For example, I’ve been helping my mum cook all morning for Jesa. I smell like oil - like a giant oil monster! I’ll probably go up late Jan/early Feb. Hope you’ll have some time to see me then!

I think PC Bangs are doing ok down here as well. I just feel that the rate at which they were growing before appears to have decreased somewhat. It’s the winter holidays as well, so I expected them to be a bit more crowded and lively. And some of them have closed down, so I’m trying to see what’s going on. I’ve explored almost all of them around my neighbourhood, and also checked out a few in businer shopping suburbs, but haven’t spoken to the people working there or anything. I intend to soon - everything will just have to wait until after my sister’s wedding :)

My previous study on Cyworld showed that the main reason why people didn’t want to go online via their mobile phones was the cost - especially when there are so many cheap and/or free broadband connections available everywhere… it would be crazy to use their mobiles and pay…! Finally Koreans will have an option to have a “communication bundles” which combines telephone, mobile, internet, IPTV etc soon. And mobile data services are about to be cheaper (by 30%), so I assume the mobile-net take up will start its interesting momentum particualarly with DMB and WiBro etc :)

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