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KT penalty fee waiver spurs 30,000 users to switch, 70 percent choose SKT

About 30,000 KT subscribers moved to other carriers or budget mobile operators over three days after KT began waiving early termination fees, industry data showed. A total of 31,634 users left from Dec. 31 to Jan. 2, with 26,192 choosing rival operators. Of those, 18,720 switched to SK Telecom and 7,272 to LG Uplus. Industry players cite SKT’s subscriber acquisition policies and limited perceived benefits of KT’s compensation package.

Industry

Are CES 2025 award-winning innovation products on sale now?

As CES 2026 approaches, a review of notable CES 2025 award-winning products shows that outcomes vary widely. Some, such as Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS, Moonbird’s screen-free meditation device and certain LG OLED TVs, are on sale. Others, including BioLite’s Backup Power Supply and Ohsnap’s MCON controller, have not launched but are slated to ship in 2026. Some remain unreleased or were dropped from recommendations due to price.

AI & Enterprise

Gemini could overcome ChatGPT brand awareness if it keeps growing

Four Andreessen Horowitz partners discussed the 2026 AI market on a podcast, analysing competition among LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity and Grok. Justin Moore said Gemini 3’s video and image models could hold a major edge and that sustained growth could overcome ChatGPT’s brand awareness. Olivia Moore said ChatGPT’s app store strategy will be pivotal and noted rapid growth in its enterprise version.