KT Freetel Co., Ltd. (Korea Telecom Freetel, Korean : 주식회사케이티프리텔 ) was a South Korean telecommunications firm, now merged into Korea Telecom , specializing in cellular, or mobile, phones. Since 1999, it has also developed extensive overseas operations. The company is credited with developing customized ring back tones . On 1 June 2009, KTF was merged with KT .
5-515: In 2003, KTF received an order from PT Mobile-8 Telecom of Indonesia for a comprehensive consulting service. KTF also signed a contract for the export of its CDMA network management system and invested $ 10 million in the Indonesian mobile provider. KTF commercialized the world first nationwide HSDPA service with the brand of "SHOW" on 1 March 2007. In India, the firm completed the first stage of its contract with Reliance for $ 2.65 million worth of
10-515: The CDMA network construction. KTF also holds a 25% stake in CEC Mobile of China , after investing a sum of 4.5 billion won in 2002. The two major shareholders of KTF are KT (52.99%) and NTT DoCoMo (10.03%). KTF sponsors a professional StarCraft team. KT officially declared the merger on January 14 2009. KFTC approved merge on February 25, 2009. The Korea Communications Commission finally approved
15-472: The company PT Sinar Mas Komunikasi Teknologi. Smartfren operates exclusively using a 4G LTE network after shifting away from CDMA technologies in 2014. As of 2018, Smartfren has 10.1 million active subscribers, making them the fifth-largest wireless carrier in the country. Smartfren provides wireless voice (via VoLTE ) and data services in Indonesia, which it claims is available in over 200 cities. In 2015,
20-476: The company launched their LTE-Advanced network, becoming the first in the country to do so. Smartfren partnered with some China -based smartphone manufacturers such as Hisense , Haier and ZTE to produce smart devices under the Smartfren Andromax brand. These phones operate on either CDMA 2000 1x or LTE on the newer models. They use the following naming scheme: More recently, they also launched
25-479: The merger on Mar 18 2009. A special meeting of shareholders was held on Mar 27 2009. KT finished the merge on May 31, 2009. Smartfren PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk , commonly known as Smartfren (stylized as smartfren. ), formerly known as PT Mobile 8 Telecom Tbk , is an Indonesia -based wireless network operator headquartered in Central Jakarta . It is owned by Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas under
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