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To: LarsA who wrote (12661)	6/15/2001 8:06:56 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Lars, excellent points. The "Silence of the Operators" wrt to the actual implementation of and subscriber #'s for 1X in Korea has been deafening. I wonder if some enterprising journalist will take that plane trip to Seoul... But I'll try to shed a little light on the status by the following from SKT: World's First Wireless Motion Picture Service Launched Commercially - Advanced technology allows the user to watch movies or the news through a cellular phone. - The service is ushering in the age of cdma2000-1x high-speed multimedia. - SK Telecom demonstrates its technological leadership in wireless online services. - News, video and audio contents will be available from June 1. On June 1, SK Telecom began offering commercial wireless online services to 23 Korean cities, taking its cdma2000-1x network to a new level of usage. Subscribers have access to video on demand, audio on demand and other multimedia services via their cellular phones. A demonstration of the wireless multimedia service was given at the SK Telecom Head Office Main Conference Room on May 31. The participants were briefed on the basic technology and then saw first-hand such sophisticated multimedia offerings as video, animation, news reports and music downloads through SK Telecom¡¯s n.TOP wireless online service. SK Telecom Wireless Internet Division Chief Chung Man-won said in his address, ¡°This is the world¡¯s first commercial service that offers motion pictures through a wireless handset without the need for peripheral devices. Only a cdma2000-1x network is being used. This new service has placed SK Telecom in the lead of the future wireless Internet market. We will continue to pioneer new technology related to this field.¡± SK Telecom put its cdma2000-1x network into commercial service last October, and now the network delivers video data to wireless handsets at 153Kbps. The video data are downloaded into the handset for retrieval at the user¡¯s convenience. News reports, performances and other such services, meanwhile, are provided as data streams that the handset user can access via the wireless Internet. The video on demand service is available for a usage fee of W300-W400 per movie plus a call charge of W2.5 per 512-byte packet. To promote this new business, SK Telecom is waiving the usage fee during June. Throughout the month, moreover, users will pay a predetermined charge that is 30%-70% lower than the packet call rate. In July, the company plans to extend its nationwide coverage to 79 cities and towns. The multimedia contents are divided into seven different categories: broadcasts/entertainment, animated features, movies, educational/religious programs, news reports, music, and audio books. Offerings include news on entertainers, TV program previews, ad bloopers, animation, movie previews, broadcast news, and performances by popular singers. A broad range of other contents is also available such as English language study programs supported by video and drawings, Christian sermons and hymns, and audio readings of novels, essays and children¡¯s stories. The current n.TOP service offers over 100 different kinds of contents in color, and these are now accessible from a cellular phone. The Samsung Electronics SCH-X200 handset will be used to receive video on demand services in color. This terminal is expected to retail for W700,000. Persons wishing to log onto the new multimedia service featuring motion pictures first must press the n.TOP button on their handsets and then connect to 3.Entertainment/ 9.Multiedia. Alternatively, they can press the VOD Hot Key on the right side of their handsets to pull up a menu of seven multimedia services. sktelecom.com NOTE: 1,291 won = $1USD