TU Media Corp. was

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's first mobile

broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...

service company headquartered in

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

. Its name stood for "TV for you." It was established in 2003 as a subsidiary of

SK Telecom SK Telecom Co., Ltd. ( or ) is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator and former film distributor and is part of the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebols. It leads the local market with 50.5 percent share as of 2008. S ...

. SK Telecom owned 44% of the company's shares. Currently about 1.3 million people were subscribers to the service before its shutdown.

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TU Media Corp. provides services on the Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (

S-DMB S-DMB (Satellite-DMB) was a hybrid version of the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. The S-DMB used the S band (2170-2200 MHz) of IMT-2000. and delivered around 18 channels at 128 kbit/s in 15 MHz. It incorporated a high power geostati ...

) network with full coverage for the

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. In April 2006, in preparation for the

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Germany 2006, was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host the ...

service was made available along the entire

KTX Korea Train eXpress (), often known as KTX (), is South Korea's high-speed rail system, operated by Korail. Construction began on the high-speed line from Seoul to Busan in 1992. KTX services were launched on April 1, 2004. From Seoul Station the ...

rail system; providing a high quality reception at a travelling speed of 300 km/h. On May 25, 2006, TU Media opened its service in the

Busan Subway The Busan Metro () is the urban rail system operated by the Busan Transportation Corporation of Busan, South Korea. The metro network first opened in 1985 with seventeen stations. The Metro itself consists of 4 numbered lines, covering of ro ...

system. TU Milestones * 2001 Sep. Applied for the registration to the ITU Satellite Network (by SK Telecom) * 2002 Nov. Established Wireless Test Center(Seoul) * 2003 Sep. Signed a contract with Japan’s MBCo for joint possession of DMB satellite * 2003 Dec. Established TU Media Corp. * 2004 Feb. Completed Broadcasting Center * 2004 Mar. Successfully launched DMB satellite called ‘Hanbyul’ * 2004 Dec. Acquired satellite DMB business license * 2005 Jan. Began pilot satellite DMB service * 2005 May Launched commercial satellite DMB service with 7 video and 20 audio channels * 2006 May Offered 12 video and 26 audio channels * 2006 Dec. Reached 1,020,000 subscribers * 2007 Apr. Launched a data channel for traffic information * 2007 Sep. Offered 18 video and 20 audio channels * 2008 Feb. Reached 1,300,000 subscribers * 2008 Jun. Offered 21 video and 19 audio channels * 2008 Jul. Reached 1,400,000 subscribers * 2010 Nov. Merger with SK Telink * 2012 Jul. TU Media closure * 2012 Aug.

service ends.

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