A company called Interbro (branded as Yota in Korea) has produced a product called an “egg” that works seamlessly with the KTF WiBro network. It essentially turns your WiMAX connection from your Korean mobile carrier into a WIFI hotspot. You can get speeds up to 4 megabits per second (incredible!), even in the subway in Seoul.  KT offers 30 gigabytes of data transfer per month for $20.

This means you can actually use your iPod Touch or any generation iPhone from Apple with a WiMax service here in Korea. Its still not the same iPhone 100%, but this allows you to take advantage of the many features of the iPhone.  If you have an iPod Touch, you’re basically putting it on steroids with a high speed connection. Simply download the Skype App for your iPhone and pay for a WiMAX account and you could actually eliminate your mobile phone bill in Korea. Pretty amazing.

I wonder if this WiMAX Egg is the “iPhone” in Korea they’ve been talking about. We’ll see.

The diagram below explains how it works.