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Broadcast Media and Communications Commission launches consultative body to boost pay-TV industry

South Korea\'s Broadcast Media and Communications Commission has launched a private-public consultative body to draw up measures to revitalise the pay-TV industry as growth stalls and profitability worsens. The commission held the first meeting in Seoul on Aug. 20 with pay-TV operators and the Korea Information Society Development Institute. The group will discuss deregulation, building an innovation base, supporting digital and AI transition, and creating a fair, co-prosperity environment, including content usage fee issues.

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KT Skylife\'s ipit TV subscribers top 240,000

KT Skylife said on Wednesday that subscribers to its internet-based TV service ipit TV have topped 240,000 and internet subscribers have surpassed 660,000. The product, launched in July last year, offers live broadcasts and over-the-top services based on KT\'s internet network and provides a 2,200 won monthly discount to users of major OTT services. The company aims to reach 300,000 ipit TV subscribers and 700,000 internet subscribers by year-end.

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Telecom operators\' user protection average score 873 points, down 13 points from year earlier

South Korea\'s Broadcasting Media Communications Commission said an assessment of user-protection work at 47 telecommunications operators showed overall performance fell or was flat from a year earlier. The average score for 39 companies, excluding eight pilot-assessment firms, was 873.3 points, down 13.4 points. Grades for large carriers generally declined. The regulator cited shortcomings among value-added operators and said it would withhold or delay penalty-reduction benefits for top-rated firms.