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To: foundation who wrote (32072)	2/6/2003 7:35:02 AM
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SK Telecom Treads Cautiously With W-CDMA (06/02/03, BWCS staff) South Korea’s biggest mobile operator, SK Telecom has indicated that it will not be investing heavily in W-CDMA until there is sufficient demand for the service. In outlining SK Telecom’s capital investment plans for 2003 the company’s CEO Pyo Moon Soo said that spending on W-CDMA infrastructure would be governed by expected return on investment. Specifically Pyo said that the company will be looking at the general availability and adoption of W-CDMA handsets as an indicator of demand for the IMT-2000 service. Although it isn’t lumbered with the huge licence fees paid by European 3G operators SK Telecom was hit by a surprise fall in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2002. As a result the company has put its planned 520 billion won investment in W-CDMA on the back burner. Back in November the Korean operator said it would choose a W-CDMA vendor in early 2003 with a service launch pencilled in towards the end of the year. Last month South Korea’s second largest mobile operator, KT, was reported to be planning to postpone its planned launch of W-CDMA services. The company had been expected to begin operations on its W-CDMA network in June of this year but this could now be delayed by up to ten months. Both KT and SK Telecom have already built up a strong following for their 3G cdma2000 1XRTT and EV-DO services and ensuring smooth interoperability between these and W-CDMA will be another crucial issue in determining when the latter is introduced commercially. bwcs.com

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