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To: Alfred W. Post who wrote (75450)	7/6/2000 7:40:05 AM
From: Hobie1Kenobe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Good news for a change..... quote.bloomberg.com Korea Telecom Says It Will Use CDMA-2000 for New Phone Services By Ian King Seoul, July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Korea Telecom Corp., Korea's largest telecommunications company, said it will use technology licensed from San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. if it wins from the government the right to provide new phone services. Korea Telecom -- which is the majority stakeholder in Korea Telecom Freetel Corp. and is buying another mobile service provider, Hansol M.com Co. -- said it will select Qualcomm's code division multiple access 2000 technology. ``We believe that the government should allow service providers to choose which technology they will use and fortunately that is their plan,'' said Nam Jung Soo, head of the company's IMT200 promotion department, at a public hearing on a government plan to select licensees. ``Korea Telecom will use CDMA 2000.'' Korea is the largest market for Qualcomm's technology, with all 26 million of its users hooked up via CDMA cellular phones. Qualcomm technology accounts for about 20 percent of the world cell phone market, with around 60 million users worldwide. In formulating its plan to award the licenses, the government mulled choosing one standard or leaving it open to service providers. The government said it had considered choosing the new Wide CDMA technology, an alternative standard produced by Japan's NTT CoMoMo Inc. and European phone makers Nokia Oyj and Ericsson SpA. That's because the current version of W-CDMA technology now in use -- global standard for mobile communications, or GSM -- is more widely used with about 60 percent of the world market. This could have provided Korean users with greater access to global roaming, or the ability to use the same handset on other systems in other countries, and helped handset producers such as Samsung Electronics Co. save money on producing phones for different technologies. Alternatively, sticking with a derivative of a technology they are already familiar with will reduce development costs, the Ministry of Information and Communication's draft plan said. KT Freetel and Hansol, which will be merged next year, have about 30 percent of Korea's market. The government will announce its final plan next week and accept applications for licenses in September. Its will award the permits before the end of the year. If the current proposal is adopted it is expected to favor the three companies that control Asia's second largest mobile phone market: KT through its two mobile units, SK Telecom Co., the largest provider, and LG Telecom Co. Access More Information and Services Above

To: Alfred W. Post who wrote (75450)	7/6/2000 12:39:57 PM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

W-CDMA is not a technology of Q. >Is the W-CDMA technology the one of Qualcom? and what >is special about it? Fred W-CDMA is an open 3-G standard, which is specified (mainly) by ETSI and to which any manufacturer is invited to produce goodies. The 3-G standard of Q is called CDMA2000 and is proprietary, i.e. Q stands to gain royalties on each adaptation. W-CDMA is designed especially the GSM in mind. As the GSM is the dominant – and BTW fastest growing – technology, W-CDMA is going to be the dominant 3-G technology in the world. The question remains how big a slice is left to CDMA2000. The signs are not encouraging, at least everywhere else but not on this thread. Even the most devoted CDMA1 countries are slipping into the W-CDMA camp, witness Korea and Brazil. There is even a clear albeit less than likely possibility that no commercial CDMA2000 systems will ever be built. So will CDMA2000 suffer the fate of the Betamax video? I think so. - rajala