Korea’s Mobile Market – A window to 3G
– A detailed report that shows why and how the Korean mobile market has developed into the ultimate 3G showcase. The market for mobile phones is characterised by strong competition,…
Strand Consult was back in 2002 the first to document in a series of reports that South Korea, not Japan, was the 3G leader in the mobile wireless industry. Already in 2001, South Korea consolidated from a 5 to 3 operator market and accelerated to transition from CDMA to WCDMA. South Korea, the world’s #1 broadband market, provides a valuable use case for regulators which demonstrates that concentrated markets can deliver value to consumers through high investment, competitive prices, and advanced service offerings.
In 2022 Strand Consult published more groundbreaking research on South Korea in “Netflix v. SK Broadband. The David and Goliath Battle for Broadband Fair Cost Recovery in South Korea” which describes how one operator challenged the global streaming giant and ignited a global movement for broadband cost recovery. As the report documents, this lawsuit has inspired operators and policymakers around the world to examine and challenge the aggressive, anticompetitive tactics by Big Tech platforms. Strand Consult runs a global project on broadband cost recovery to create transparency and reduce distortion in the market for broadband access.
– A detailed report that shows why and how the Korean mobile market has developed into the ultimate 3G showcase. The market for mobile phones is characterised by strong competition,…
what can Europe, the USA and Japan learn from this? In Korea, the ARPU (average revenue pr. user) is on the rise and there are some very good reasons for…
what can Europe, the USA and Japan learn from this? In Korea, ARPU (average revenue pr. user) is on the rise and there are some very good reasons for the…
Carl Williams, Strand Consult Wednesday 19th FebruaryGSM World Congress 2003, Cannes Today it was the turn of the mobile operators to kick of the third day of the GSM World…
In Europe a new mobile baby has been born, the name of the child has been chosen and there are great expectations and hopes for the future of this new…
– Both Operators And Content Providers Lose And No One Wins the Wons. In South Korea there is a big focus on electronic games of all different kinds and the…
In South Korea Mobile Applications have made a big impact on what types of pricing models the mobile operators can offer mobile users – and the new price models have…
– but the price of a prediction is just too high. Before now, very few people could tell a story by looking at the palm of another person’s hand. Today,…
as seen in Korea. Although little known or spoke of today, Virtual Machines (VM) in mobile phones will change the way mobile consumers use their phones and thereby how much…
will the European mobile operators use the lessons learned in Korea or try to reinvent the wheel themselves? While the European mobile operators are still wondering how they are going…
– in stark contrast to Europe.What made the difference? While most European mobile operators preferably don’t even mention the word WAP any more, WAP has grown to be a huge…
Being the first is not always the same as being the best.Japan was first to launch a 3G network for mobile services. But South Korea has been by far the…
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