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CDMA Success Offers Clues to Future Development
By Kim Deok-hyun
Staff Reporter
A local economic research institute urged yesterday that Korea should use successful code division multiple access (CDMA) initiatives as its benchmark.
According to a report yesterday released by the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI), the CDMA industry is the only field in which Korea secures the world's leading position, ranging from fundamental technologies and standardization to mass-production.
Kim Jae-yun, who has supervised the study as a senior researcher at SERI, said that domestic entrepreneurs should develop future-oriented industries by using the CDMA success story as a benchmark.
``The government and business circles should join forces to create promising technologies to lead global industrial initiatives, instead of satisfying the current success of CDMA,'' he said.
CDMA phone networks were first commercialized here, and now the industry accounts for 54 percent of the world's handset manufactures, the report stated.
However, Kim mentioned China's rise in mobile telecommunications, warning that China would exceed Korea in terms of CDMA telephone manufacturing in one or two years.
``In order to maintain its commercial and technological superiorities in terms of third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunication services, domestic entrepreneurs
should localize their core technologies and parts, especially in software,'' the report instructed.
It also urged the government to quash restrictions to reduce operating costs, lessen red tape and induce more international finance.
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