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Blog: Will 5G drive additional ARPU gains in Korea? - Mobile World Live 16 FEB 2021 South Korean mobile players started to feel the full benefit of 5G on their top lines seven quarters after introducing the next-generation service, with the three major players recording year-on-year mobile revenue growth and mostly improving ARPU in 2020. LG Uplus led the market with 5.1 per cent growth in mobile service revenue, with2.8 per cent for SK Telecom (SKT) and 1.6 per cent for KT. All were significant improvements over 2019 figures. Neale Anderson, head of Asia telecoms research at HSBC, told Mob...

News Analysis Robert Clark 1/29/2021 Rakuten has turned up the heat in Japan's escalating price war with a new plan that includes give free data for light users. The startup telco unveiled its new prices Thursday, with no charge for users consuming less than 1GB and unlimited data at 2980 yen (US$28.42) per month. It was responding to discounts announced by established rivals NTT Docomo, SoftBank Corp. and KDDI Corp over the last six weeks. Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told a press briefing that just under half of Rakuten's customers consum...

News Analysis Robert Clark 12/24/2020 Be careful what you wish for. After repeated jabs from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga over their high data charges, Japan's operators have over-corrected and could be heading for a price war. This week Softbank Corp. announced that it would follow NTT DoCoMo in slashing its data prices, with a basic monthly price of ¥2,980 (US$28.77) for 20GB to be introduced in March. But it will be offered only online and through its Softbank on Line brand, Reuters reports. It is a significant shift for the operator, w...

i'm christine kohn in asia. the nikkei falls to lowest close in six months. >> i'm steve sedgwick, in europe, a second term in office and gets her dream coalition with the prohibition democrats. and the u.s., investors begin to look to third quarter erjs as the next big test to the recove recovery. hello, and welcome to cnbc's worldwide exchange. let's take a look at the markets with a look at the cnbc global 300 index, which is continuing, i'm afraid on the downward momentum of the previous week. down .641%, but september hasn't yet proved as bad as many who feared we would see...