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From: Dexter Lives On	10/27/2006 9:34:25 AM
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US Military Shows Interest in WiBro By Cho Jin-seo Staff Reporter U.S. military officials have visited Samsung Electronics last month to check out the WiBro wireless Internet technology, the company said yesterday. ``Officials of the U.S. Department of Defense have visited Samsung’s Suwon complex and watched a WiBro demonstration,’’ a Samsung Electronics spokesperson said yesterday. Better known as WiMax outside of Korea, WiBro is a so-called fourth-generation communication platform, which enables the use of Internet and video communication while moving as fast as 120 kilometers per hour. The South Korean military is also preparing to adopt it as a part of its ``Ubiquitous Defense’’ project. Samsung didn’t elaborate the issue, but it is believed that the U.S. military is considering adopting the Korea-led technology for its next-generation tactical communication tool, a local daily reported citing a Samsung insider. ``We are currently fine-tuning the deal with the U.S. military about the time frame and the size of the procurement,’’ an unidentified Samsung official was quoted by Hankook economic daily. ``When the deal is signed, personal and military communication equipments of the U.S. military will be fully reorganized to be based on the wireless Internet network.’’ The official also reportedly said that the size of the deal will match Samsung’s $3-billion contract with Sprint. Samsung is to supply necessary equipments for Sprint in building a nationwide civilian network in the United States by 2008. The U.S. military is the largest single buying power in the world. It has more than 1.4 million troops in active duty all around the world and its budget amounts $441.6 billion this year, which is larger than the military budgets of the next twenty largest spending nations combined. It also has been an early adopter of new technologies. It was the first to use an e-mail and Internet file transferring system (FTP) in large scales in early 1970s. Global positioning system (GPS) using satellite was also developed as a U.S. military tool before it became commercially available in 1990s. South Korea has been leading the development of the WiBro platform since 2003, when Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, KT and Electronics and the Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) formed a WiBro consortium. indizio@koreatimes.co.kr 10-27-2006 17:33 TM

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