North Korean mobile operator offers free SMS
By Dusan Belic on Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 12:30 AM PST In General
In an effort to get more users to its network, Orascom Telecom-partly owned North Korean operator – koryolink is offering free SMS to the subscribers. Moreover, the mix of free minutes was revised to satisfy customer requirements.
However, it’s only one side of the problem. It’s also the retail network koryolink lacks to entice more people to use mobile services. To be fair, there are 2 large sales shops strategically located in downtown Pyongyang and 3 additional scratch card sales outlets located within KPTC post office shops. But is it enough? Take a look at your city’s downtown or any major boulevard/avenue for that matter – it’s bursting with telecom shops.
Anyway, koryolink probably realizes this, and in that sense they plan to open 6 more outlets within KPTC shops, as well as to inaugurate an after sales service shop in the third quarter of this year.
At the same time, the operator looks to expand and upgrade the network. For that purposes, fiber-optic cables have been laid in all provinces in an effort to expand mobile communications “on a national scale.” We’ll see how that goes…
[Via: CellularNews]
