Hundreds of Thousands of Samsung Smart TVs Lose Internet App Access

Samsung's smart TVs may be suffering from a severe case of being too good for their own good, in its home market at least.

KT, the largest fixed-line operator in that country, has decided to deny Internet access to the apps loaded on Samsung Smart TVs.

Apparently, those things eat up too much bandwidth, so down went a major asset of Samsung's web-connected TV sets.

"Excessive electricity use can cause a wide scale blackout, as we have experienced in September last year. Likewise, over-burdening the internet inevitably hurts other users," KT said, according to MK.

By KT's reckoning, there are roughly 1 million Smart TVs active in South Korea, half of which it is responsible for.

Whether or not this measure stays permanent depends on Samsung and whatever compromise it manages to strike, if it does at all.