South Korea Telecom to Terminate 138-Year-Old Telegraph Service Next Month
South Korea Telecom to Terminate 138-Year-Old Telegraph Service Next Month
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South Korea Telecom to Terminate 138-Year-Old Telegraph Service Next Month
South Korea’s second-largest wireless carrier, Korea Telecom Corporation (KT), recently announced on its website that its domestic telegraph service, 115, will come to an end on December 15.
According to South Korea Telecom, “Due to changes in the communication market environment, the volume of telegraph communication has been rapidly declining each year.
As losses continue to mount, the company will no longer provide this service.”
Previously, South Korea Telecom had discontinued its international telegraph service on April 8, 2018.
South Korea Telecom did not disclose the number of customers using the telegraph service. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the telegraph was once the best and fastest means of long-distance communication.
South Korea introduced telegraph services in 1885, with the first telegraph sent between the then capital, Seoul, and the western port of Incheon.
However, with the widespread adoption of email and mobile phones in the 1990s, the number of telegraph users in South Korea has been sharply declining.
This trend is not unique to South Korea. Globally, there is a trend towards the discontinuation of telegraph services. The United Kingdom abandoned telegrams in 1982, the United States sent its last telegram in 2006, and Germany terminated telegraph services on January 1, 2023.
