Seoul to guarantee access to basic mobile data after caps

Mobile phone users in South Korea will have access to basic data, albeit at a reduced speed, even after exhausting their monthly limit, a move that would protect their communication rights, the science ministry said Thursday. Under an agreement with the Ministry of Science and ICT, the country's top three carriers -- SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. -- will continue to provide basic access to data at a reduced speed of 400 kilobits per second to all their subscribers who run out of th

By The Korea Herald