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To: waverider who wrote (76447)	7/12/2000 6:09:41 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

missed that one...could you post the link? Rick, I posted the following here several days ago. koreaherald.co.kr IMT-2000 operator selection criteria to be announced July 20 How the government will go about selecting the three IMT-2000 operators could be disclosed as early as July 20. The Ministry of Information and Communication said yesterday that a preliminary draft specifying the criteria for judging IMT-2000 business proposals would be drawn up soon. The ministry is due to officially announce the final IMT-2000 policy plan that defines the number of operators, technology standard and selection method Wednesday before convening a discussion on application method and selection criteria the following day. The ministry is expected to brief the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) July 18. The draft plan for application and selection criteria is expected to include a grading scale for contribution amounts, qualifications for participating in the third-generation mobile telecom business, make up of consortiums and suitability of shareholders. Among the elements to be considered in the technology standards category is equipment supply, service and possibility for overseas business. How a firm proposes to promote digital content business is also reported to be among the issues for consideration. Meanwhile, the government appears to be non too perplexed about the fact that all service operators have declared that they would adopt the W-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access) technology in the wake of the government's announcement that it would allow for multiple technology standards. SK Telecom, a world-leader in CDMA (code division multiple access) wireless service, has declared it would deploy the rival W-CDMA for 3G services, in due consideration of the global market which is expected to deploy W-CDMA by an overwhelming margin. Even the state-owned Korea Telecom (KT), which had previously deferred to the government on the technology issue saying in effect that it would go along with cdma2000 if the government deems it to be in the national interest, last week publicly declared that it would deploy W-CDMA. LG TeleCom has consistently said that it would deploy W-CDMA, motivated in no small part by the fact that its affiliate LG Information and Communications has been working on W-CDMA equipment for a number of years, while the Korea IMT-2000 Consortium, virtually out of the race now with last week's announcement that three operators will be selected, has also been in favor of W-CDMA. Interestingly, both KT and LGT last week appeared to be cornering SKT into taking cdma2000, claiming that the leader in the technology and the company that is due to rollout 2.5G service based on cdmaOne technology in October should be the one to deploy cdma2000 if the government wants to see both standards used here. SKT countered those claims saying that if cdma2000 is deemed to yield so little, then only a token share of the market should be given to that technology with the smallest operator deploying the less favored technology, apparently in pointing at LGT. Despite what is being publicly said by the service operators, the government is apparently confident that the market will sort itself out on the technology issue. "Operators and equipment makers will make their decisions based on profit maximization as well as in the interests of national competitiveness. The government is confident that all operators deploying a single technology standard will not happen," said a senior ministry official. Updated: 07/10/2000 by Kim Hoo-ran Staff reporter Previous \|\| Top (C) Copyright 2000 Digital Korea Herald. All rights reserved Contact us for more information