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To: carranza2 who wrote (11761)	5/21/2001 4:08:09 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

re Korea 2.5G (1xRTT) Why do I get confused everytime I read an article on this subject emanating from Korea? I was laboring under the assumption that, at least in the case of SKT, contracts had been let. I guess this is expansion of current, which so far as I know is reasonably robust at this juncture, or maybe some 1xEV? KTF, less of a surprise. Hyundai was to supply initial equipment and folded. I also find this statement interesting: "consumers will be able to use 40-times faster, Internet-enabled telephone services by the end of this year at the earliest, an industry source said yesterday." 40 x GSM 9,6 = 384 = WCDMA but we are supposedly talking Korea here and no GSM yet. Are we talking 1xEV in this story? Not new news on the MSM5000 chipset, but an interesting LG twist. The Qualcomm royalty issue is being raised again (as noted elsewhere). Backlash of China deals. I would sure like to see a comprehensive article on the state of IS-95C in Korea. >> Bids Coming In for 2.5G Network Equipment Korea Times 2001/05/21 The 2.5-generation (2.5G) telecom equipment market is being auctioned off by two local mobile phone operators, signaling that consumers will be able to use 40-times faster, Internet-enabled telephone services by the end of this year at the earliest, an industry source said yesterday. The domestic 2.5G telecom equipment market is estimated to be worth up to 200 billion won, the source said. Early this month, the second largest mobile phone carrier, KTF, sent requests for proposals (RFP) to telecom equipment companies for the commercial launch of cdma2000 1x operations. There have allegedly been seven bidders so far, including Samsung Electronics, Kisan Telecom, a Hitachi consortium, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Ericsson and LG Electronics. SK Telecom, the dominant cellular phone operator, is also negotiating with an alleged five companies, both at home and abroad, to buy the needed equipment for establishing 2.5G networks. Conversely, the smallest mobile phone operator, LG Telecom, is seen to need more time to kick off its own 2.5G mobile network service. Unlike its two contenders, LG Telecom has prepared its 2.5G networks with a different form of service. LG introduced its 2.5G cellular handset, the Cyber-IX1 with Qualcomm's embedded MSM5000 chip late last year, but experts said the model is difficult to operate, and cannot easily send or receive high-density motion pictures. Industry experts said that a cdma2000 1x wireless system enables high-speed access from laptops, handheld computers and Internet appliances to enterprise applications, streaming audio and video and the Internet. Compared with the current second-generation (2G) service, which offers between 9.6 kbps and 19.2 kbps of data transmission speed, 2.5G mobile networks deliver a big improvement of presently 64 kbps and soon 128 kbps. However, a problem is looming over the non-fixed royalty payment system on the use of code division multiple access (CDMA) technology by the U.S. Telecom Giant Qualcomm So far, local CDMA-based equipment makers have paid a royalty rate of around 5.5 percent per mobile phone. The royalty is based on the retail price of the device. In case of notebook computers, for instance, local companies should pay a more than 10-fold expensive royalty, in accordance with the pact with Qualcomm. Samsung and LG Electronics already signed further agreements with Qualcomm to use the technology in other mobile gadgets. Even so, people close to the situation pointed out that most revenues from cdma2000 1x devices would translate into royalty payments as device prices increase. Meanwhile, the government and business groups aim to join forces to kick start the full-scale development of the new technology in the year ending May 2002. << - Eric -