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Mobile service providers will have to lower wireless Internet data costs by 30 percent beginning next year. The government and the Uri Party met yesterday and decided to have mobile service companies cut prices for connections to wireless Internet. Wireless Internet is a service used frequently by young users mainly to play games that need Internet connections. It has created social problems in the past because parents could not pay high bills. The Information Ministry plans to apply the discounted rates as early as January, if a consensus with service providers is reached by that time. The ministry said that it expects the nation’s mobile phone bills to go down by 210 billion won ($222.5 million) to 280 million won less in mobile phone bills due to the price cuts. The cuts, however, do not include fees that users pay for downloading data. These includes films, music files and other information that users pay for separately on a per item basis. It those were included in the 30 percent price cuts, the ministry said that SK Telecom would lose 185 billion won in sales a year. The price cuts also do not include short message services, or text messages, because laws state that service providers may set their own prices on these services. In related news, the government also plans to expand discount benefits that are given to families that have an income of under 140,000 won a month. The move will increase the recipients of those benefits from 180,000 people to 420,000 people. by Shim Jae-woo
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