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South Korean Telcos Government announced to improve competitive structure and lower mobile fees. Our thoughts.

Today, South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT ("MSIT") unveiled plans aimed at lowering the average household mobile spending, by encouraging lower mobile price plans and fostering greater mobile competition through 1) incentivising a fourth mobile operator, 2) promoting MVNO competitiveness through wholesale provisions and 3) raising the subsidy cap on Mobile Device Distribution Act from 15% to 30%
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LG Uplus Corp

LG Uplus is engaged in the business of mobile telephone, communication, voice and data services. Co. provides the following services: cellular services; paging services, which provides paging via satellite, high speed paging, and interactive data transmission; IMT-2000 Services, which is wireless multimedia service accessible through a network based on wide band CDMA technology; and home solution services, which provides local, long-distance and overseas telephone services, broadband Internet services, and cable television transmission network services.

SK Telecom Co. Ltd.

SK Telecom is a wireless telecommunications services provider in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Co. provides the following services: wireless Internet services, which include music portal services, game portal services, multimedia services, and wired and wireless integrated multimedia services; ubiquitous and convergence services, which include telematics, digital home, commerce, mobile radio frequency identification and mobile community; international roaming services, which include global system for mobile communication; video telephony services, which enable subscribers incorporating video conferences, as well as B2B services.

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