Wideband CDMA is more than a glimmer in the eye of Interdigital. Korea is putting a lot of effort into CDMA technology and Globalstar with a view to dominating the future of wireless communications.
There is today a seminar in Korea:
SEOUL. The International Telecommunications Union is give its opinion on FPLMTS (Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications Systems) in Seoul today according to Korea Mobile Telecom.
The first Telecommunications Review International Seminar, at the Hilton Hotel in Seoul, will focus on the latest research trends regarding FPLMTS. This seminar is being sponsored by Korea Mobile Telecom, the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Korean Institute of Communication Science.
FPLMTS refers to the wireless service that combines different types of communications networks, such as cellular, cordless phone, wideband paging and satellite communications. With FPLMTS service, users can receive voice, data, video and other multimedia communications services anywhere in the world.
FPLMTS is also called "IMT (International Mobile Telecom)-2000" by the ITU and "UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecom System)" in Europe. Researchers from Korea, Japan, China, the United States and Britain will exchange development and technical information about FPLMTS, IMT-2000 and UMTS.
Akihisa Nakajima of Japan's NTT DoCoMo will present a dissertation on network technologies for FPLMTS, while his fellow researcher, Nobuo Nakajima, will discuss the possibility of applying wideband code division multiple access technology to FPLMTS. Other panelists at the seminar will include Haige Xiang of Peking Univ. (on the state of FPLMTS in China), Michael H. Callendar of the ITU (on ITU standardization of IMT-2000), Hamid Aghvami of King's College in London (on UMTS technology in Europe) and Takeshi Hattori of Japan's NTT (on future mobile telecom technologies). |
