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QCOM 173.43-0.8%Dec 29 3:59 PM EST
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To: Keith Feral who wrote (3072)9/13/2000 11:19:37 AM
From: kech  Read Replies (1) of 197041
 
From Maxgo's post:
SKT's recent announcement that it would delay 3G deployment until the fall of
2003 is in response to concerns that W-CDMA service will result in the import of
most of the equipment, in detriment to the economy. It is expected that Samsung
Electronics would be able to complete development of W-CDMA equipment by
the fall of 2003.

"Operators are allowed to decide when to start 3G service. In order to protect
the domestic equipment market, we plan to commence 3G service after the fall of
2003 when Samsung Electronics will have completed W-CDMA equipment
development," said Cho Min-lae, vice president of SKT IMT-200 business strategy
team.

"Prior to the IMT-2000 deployment, we will be providing services similar to
IMT-2000 using IS-95C which will be available starting next month," he added.

The argument here is that while IS-95C will initially support a speed of
144Kbps, the technology will continue to evolve, eventually reaching a speed of up
to 2.4Mbps available through IS-95C. That should make the IS-95C service
competitive with 3G, also known as the IMT-2000 service, whose average
transmission speed is 384Kbps, according to SKT.

The first couple of paragraphs indicate that they will wait until 2003 until W-CDMA is available for their 3G choice - which would be for their choice of IMT-2000 standard.
The last paragraph indicates thougth that in the meantime they are still going ahead with IS-95C on their current spectrum. From reading it they seem to treat the IMT-2000 choice (which must be for new spectrum) differently than the current spectrum.
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