Satellite DMB service first commercialized by South Korea is doing a free fall.

Presently TU Media, an affiliate of SK Telecom and the only S-DMB service provider that enables users to watch TV on cell phones with a satellite receiver or navigation systems have about 1.3 million subscribers, almost the same as the last year. It is doubtful whether the number will reach 1.5 million by the yearend. 

The replacement cycle length of cell phones is getting shorter. The younger a mobile user is, the faster a new cell phone is headed for the scrapheap.

It is mobile phone makers that encourage users to throw away old cell phones for a new one in an attempt to boost revenues, though such efforts are fully understandable. 

National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA) and Japan Network Information Center carry out joint research to cope with the depletion of IPv4 addresses and promote IPv6, the next generation internet address, NIDA announced.

It is expected that an Internet service which is more than 10 times faster than now will be launched in December. The Korea Communications Commission said that it would work on sophistication of networks and launch giga grade Internet service on a trial basis in December.

Korea Electronics Technology Institute(KETI) under the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy inked an MOU on home network technology standard with iTop-Home, a Chinese agency of the Ministry of Industry and Information.

KT, the nation’s biggest telecom company, announced that it launches Nespot Play service that allows Nikon’s digital camera with embedded WiFi to send images through KT wireless network.