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To: data_rox who wrote (87676)	11/16/2000 6:22:31 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Data. Thank you. HEA will make chips for the market, be it CDMA2000, or W-CDMA in Brazil and India. Do you believe they are going to stand by and allow others to build into their CDMA WLL market for a required conversion to a "WLL" W-CDMA interface? As you know, SK Telecom, Korea Telecom Freetel and LG Telecom all announced their decision to move to W-CDMA for 3g. Hyundai is an IS-95C supplier for Freetel. Freetel is moving to W-CDMA. Hyundai will become a supplier for Freetel in this regard as well. Freetel has a significant investment stake in the success of HEA worldwide. Where the market goes, they will follow. So, HEA's "IMT-2000" is being defined to include W-CDMA, given (a) the recent Korean decision and the cheabol supply agreements among SK Telecom, Freetel and LG Telecom, (b) the Brazilian decision to transfer all assets to W-CDMA, (c) India's spectrum auctions toward W-CDMA and TDD. As you know, ETRI claims IPR within W-CDMA and has been effective within the standards community in both promoting W-CDMA and promoting patriation for themselves of a revenue stream on W-CDMA deployments. ETRI has motive; Hyundai has motive. Their chipset arrangement includes the "IMT-2000" standard which does not exclude W-CDMA. It is interesting that they actually came out with stating that some of their efforts with ETRI are 3g WLL based. (I will e-mail you a response I received from HEA regarding this issue and their recent ETRI association announcement for the 3g WLL chipset development efforts.) Where ETRI and Freetel go, HEA will follow: Hyundai to Supply IS-95C System Equipment to Korea Telecom Freetel September 07 Seoul, Korea, September 7, 2000 - Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. announced yesterday that it will supply Korea Telecom Freetel (KT Freetel) with Interim Standard (IS)-95C system equipment, a next-generation mobile telecommunications service that supports data transmission at 144Kbps. According to the terms of the contract, the equipment that Hyundai will deliver to KT Freetel is valued at 120 billion won (US$ 110 million) and will include switches, base stations, cell controllers, and a high-speed packet data network. A Hyundai spokesperson said that the IS-95C system is based on Hyundai's world-class Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, and is able to support data transmission at speeds of up to 153.6Kbps. The system is backward-compatible with cellular and Personal Communications Service (PCS) systems currently in use, and is designed to minimize core modules so as to facilitate easy migration to the IMT-2000 system. Thus, the capacity and volume of the IS-95C system is expected to maximize the cost effectiveness of the overall mobile telecommunications service. KT Freetel will start its IS-95C service in Korean metropolitan areas and major cities this October, and expects to have a nationwide system network established in Korea by next year. In preparation for the launch of commercial service, KT Freetel successfully completed operational testing of a trial IS-95C system at its research center on September 1 of this year. IS-95C is an epoch-making technology that is capable of providing mobile service at Mbyte speeds for the next-generation multimedia contents of applications such as games, graphics, and moving pictures. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recognized IS-95C as a major technology for IMT-2000, the next-generation mobile service. The contract with KT Freetel secures Hyundai's position in the IS-95C systems equipment and handset market. The Korean portion of that market is projected to ultimately grow to trillions of won (billions of US dollars). Thus, Hyundai is expected to also capture the leadership position among equipment suppliers for IMT-2000. In addition, Hyundai will actively explore overseas telecommunications markets (such as China, Southeast Asia, and the Americas) for its advanced technologies, including IS-95C system, Internet Protocol (IP)-Based Network, Wireless IP, and others.