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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]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
