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turquoise1980
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:35 am Post subject: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| turquoise1980 wrote: |
I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
I'd heard they could have 2, but that was last year sometime. |
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detonate
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:02 am Post subject: |
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If you went in person somewhere, just try another store.  |
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homerpsu
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| depends on the person working at the store. |
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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| AFAIK you can only have one contract and one pay-per-go at the same time. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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#1. Ipad's are not 4G. It in impossible to get a 4G plan with an Ipad.
You can get a 4G Wifi Hotspot and access that via Wifi on the Ipad.
#2. If you want a 3G plan with the Ipad, and you already have a cell phone with 3G, then maybe you can get a plan that allows you to combine the data usage for both. I know KT offers that kind of plan. Pay an extra $10 a month, you get a sim card for your Ipad and the Data comes out of your phone's data plan. If you have unlimited data for your cell phone, then your ipad would be unlimited. |
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Kimchifart
Joined: 15 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| detonate wrote: |
| If you went in person somewhere, just try another store. |
You can always rely on the inconsistency of Korea to get you through situations like this. muhahahha.  |
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| turquoise1980 wrote: |
I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
Go to a KT global store, buy a WiFi iPad, and 4G Wibro egg, problem solved. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| Drew10 wrote: |
| turquoise1980 wrote: |
I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
Go to a KT global store, buy a WiFi iPad, and 4G Wibro egg, problem solved. |
Wibro is not 4G. If you want to compare WiBro to 4G, then it is really 3.5G.
Its faster than 3G, but much slower than LTE. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Drew10 wrote: |
| turquoise1980 wrote: |
I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
Go to a KT global store, buy a WiFi iPad, and 4G Wibro egg, problem solved. |
Wibro is not 4G. If you want to compare WiBro to 4G, then it is really 3.5G.
Its faster than 3G, but much slower than LTE. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G
Not quite.
Wibro was a 4G candidate technology, and it's faster than regular LTE. It's not faster than advanced LTE. Advanced LTE blows anything out of the water, but LTE isn't the confirmed 4G standard yet either.
We're in the same place now with 4G that we were with Wifi-N a couple years ago where many companies were making various competing products but labelling them N. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:09 pm Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| alongway wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Drew10 wrote: |
| turquoise1980 wrote: |
I've been in Korea 3 years (e-2 visa) and have a 2 year smartphone contract with SK telecom.
The other day I wanted to sign a contract on an iPad 4GB uncapped, 4G-connection but was told that since I already have a smartphone contract I'm not allowed another one.
Basically foreigners are only allowed to have more that one data contract.
Does anyone know the policy in this? |
Go to a KT global store, buy a WiFi iPad, and 4G Wibro egg, problem solved. |
Wibro is not 4G. If you want to compare WiBro to 4G, then it is really 3.5G.
Its faster than 3G, but much slower than LTE. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G
Not quite.
Wibro was a 4G candidate technology, and it's faster than regular LTE. It's not faster than advanced LTE. Advanced LTE blows anything out of the water, but LTE isn't the confirmed 4G standard yet either.
We're in the same place now with 4G that we were with Wifi-N a couple years ago where many companies were making various competing products but labelling them N. |
Lots of speed tests comparing KT, SKT, and LG's "4G" speeds.
WiBro is the slowest, SK is in the middle, and LG's LTE is significantly faster than either of them.
WiBro's theoretical bandwidth maybe much better than 3G, but its real world throughput doesn't justify it as being in the same category as SKT or LG's 4G offering.
Hence, me labeling it 3.5G and not 4G. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject: Re: Denied having 2 contracts by SK |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Lots of speed tests comparing KT, SKT, and LG's "4G" speeds.
WiBro is the slowest, SK is in the middle, and LG's LTE is significantly faster than either of them.
WiBro's theoretical bandwidth maybe much better than 3G, but its real world throughput doesn't justify it as being in the same category as SKT or LG's 4G offering.
Hence, me labeling it 3.5G and not 4G. |
I had a first gen Egg, even with that I routinely got 40-50Mb/s down. With 3G, I've never gotten more than 1-2. I'd consider a 40-50x speed increase significant and honestly more than enough for most people. The 4G egg is apparently a different design and I expect faster. Wibro though is offered by all providers, it's a shared network they built together. The other companies just don't sell eggs.
That said, they are working on a wibro/wimax 2 that is supposed to provide the same speeds as advanced LTE. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchifart wrote: |
| detonate wrote: |
| If you went in person somewhere, just try another store. |
You can always rely on the inconsistency of Korea to get you through situations like this. muhahahha. |
i just wanted to post that THIS post helped me immensely today. I was at a T-World store and told me an E2 couldn't buy the phone in increments (HalBuGuem), I could get the contract, but ID have to buy the phone in full first.. Then I remembered reading this, and went to another phone place (the 1st place was an official store, 2nd wasn't) and asked them if I could buy in increments, and it was easy-peasy.
I got me the S3. I do like the 4G Optimus LTE 2, but for now,
I have no idea how much Id use of data, so I just got the umlimited 3G.
Itll do me fine. |
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