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To: Ruffian who wrote (103108)	8/21/2001 5:19:18 PM
From: Souze	Respond to of 152472

The author of that article is rushing the clock a bit. It is now August. SK Telecom launched their service in October last year - hardly a year ago. And he had the facts at hand. But unlike other operators, SK Telecom Co. is no longer in the test phase. It has been a year since the commercial launch of its cdma2000 1x wireless Internet service, which is still the closest thing available anywhere to so-called 3G, or third-generation, technology. -- snip -- SK Telecom, which commands half of South Korea's mobile subscribers, made that mistake and is still scrambling to recover. The company was the first in the world to start commercial 1x services in October 2000.

To: Ruffian who wrote (103108)	8/21/2001 6:16:24 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 152472

A scary article, Ruff. Points out that no one is immune from the lack of apps. The killer app will be voice. The spectrum-constrained operators will have no choice.

To: Ruffian who wrote (103108)	8/21/2001 6:46:39 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ruff - Well 1. 757,000 dissatisfied moaning customers none of whom can get more than 40Kbps? Something doesn't jive around here. 2. Korea is not the US. They don't invent very much in Japan and Korea in software apps compared with the US. My bet is that as soon as the US get 1x there are going to be dozen and one new apps with the very first month. And that ignores mobile laptop wireless modems and PDAs which so far as I'm concerned is what 1x and for that matter 3G is all about. IT simply isn't about voice handsets and whoever wrote that article ought at least to have worked that one out. He didn't even mention PDAs. Article was less than informative imho. The Q opportunity just gets better by the day. Best regards, L