you say the handsets in Korea are pathetic?...you're wrong!
Colour handsets are selling VERY well in the Korean market..currently around
80 % of all handset sales are 1X - and 80% of these are colour!
about the subsidies. Yes - they are illegal, but there are still many ways
you can get a cheap phone - i.e. through credit cards with "pre mileage"
Nicolaj Nielsen
www.strandconsult.dk
----- Original Message -----
From: "dc" <dc@gamelet.com>
To: "Keitai-L" <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) korean handset subsidies
>
> Handset subsidies are illegal in korea - perhaps part of the reason the
> phones are still so pathetic (mostly B+W) despite the excellent 1X network
> infra.
>
> BTW the samsung phone sprint will be selling in july in the US is
> *awesome* - color, small, stylish, fast java, rumored sub $200 price point
> at launch.
>
> ---------
> Mobile Carriers in Brawl over Subsidy Payment
>
> LG Telecom, the 016 mobile carrier, claimed Tuesday that its rival SK
> Telecom, the market leader in mobile service with its 011 service, paid
out
> handset subsidies estimated at W70 to W80 billion to its sales offices
> nationwide in January and February. The outlawed subsidy payment is
designed
> to sell handsets to new mobile subscribers at prices lower than the
> manufacturer's cost.
>
> An official at LG Telecom said that SK Telecom has been monopolizing new
> subscribers by paying out subsidies ranging from W90,000 to W150,000 per
> set. The 016 operator also claimed that KTF, the 019 carrier, has been
> involved in a circumventive subsidy payment by offering discounts and
gifts
> to new customers under the pretext of a sales event, starting from last
> month.
>
> The LG group's mobile unit argued that the gap in the market share between
> the 016 and 011 carriers has been widening due to these illegal marketing
> activities by SK Telecom. LG Telecom said that, in the first two months
this
> year, SK Telecom managed to expand the number of its subscribers by
400,000
> and KTF by 124,000, in stark contrast to LG Telecom's 46,000.
>
> An official at SK Telecom refuted the claim by saying that LG Telecom has
> come up with much distorted market rates.
>
> (Kim Ki-hong, darma90@chosun.com)
>
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