LG Uplus, KT launch unlimited LTE plans

Nieuws Mobiel Korea, republiek van 3 APR 2014
LG Uplus, KT launch unlimited LTE plans
South Korean mobile operators LG Uplus and KT have launched unlimited LTE packages. LG Uplus offers a KRW 80,000 plan and KRW 85,000 per month plan with unlimited voice calls, messaging and LTE data. The KRW 80,000 also comes with cloud service U+Box and the U+Navi navigation system while the KRW 85,000 also provides U+HDTV, U+Professional Baseball, and Ticket Planet services, the JoongAng Daily writes. When subscribers exceed data usage of 2 GB per day, the speed will be throttled to 3 Mbps. KT will offer an unlimited LTE, voice calls and messaging plan for KRW 70,000 per month from 7 April. Rival SK Telecom also announced unlimited data for its existing LTE plans.

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