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To: foundation who wrote (16906)	11/28/2001 7:48:58 AM
From: foundation	Respond to of 196681

(Korean) Mobile-to-mobile traffic surging About 60 percent of mobile traffic in Korea is between mobile phones, highlighting that fixed-line telephone services are losing their share faster than expected in competition with mobile services, industry sources said yesterday. The so-called MM (mobile-to-mobile) traffic rose from 50 percent in total in the first quarter last year to 59 percent at the end of June this year. In contrast, mobile-to-landline, or landline-to-mobile traffic slid to less than 40 percent in the second quarter this year, suggesting that the balance is tipped in favor of MM among telephone service users in Korea. Analysts said the surge in MM traffic was widely expected as the number of mobile phone subscribers surpassed that of fixed-line counterparts last year. Currently, more than 28 million people are subscribing to mobile phone services. The growing MM traffic, meantime, is expanding the scale of the mobile connection fee market. The MM mobile connection fee market is estimated to reach 1.5 trillion won this year, mobile carriers' officials said. SK Telecom, the country's largest mobile carrier, is in conflict with KTF and LG Telecom over mobile connection fees. Latecomers argued that SKT is reaping more than what it deserves as the current connection rate does not reflect SKT's diminishing cost. 2001.11.29 koreaherald.co.kr