Korea Telecom’s latest move in its country’s endless game of broadband one-upmanship is to announce plans to invest KRW4.5 trillion ($4.38bn) in its ‘Giga Internet’. This will aim to make gigabit-plus access a near-universal service by combining fixed fiber and wireless LTE-Advanced technologies, according to local media reports. Riding on the network will be enhanced services in areas like over-the-top HDTV, smart energy and personalized health applications. However, analysts were lukewarm about the plan, which is the centrepiece of a heavy investment strategy outlined by KT chairman Hwang Chang-gyu to chase arch-rival SKT and to improve recent poor performance in some core businesses and in overall management. His recovery plan sits on five foundations ‘ gigabit internet, media content, energy,…