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To: propitious7 who wrote (17386)	12/17/2001 12:20:54 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196387

South Korean CDMA handset manufacturers are about to phase out non-1x models.... in.tech.yahoo.com Monday December 17, 9:38 AM S Korea to Cease Production of 2ND Generation Cell Phones ADVERTISEMENT SEOUL, Dec 17 Asia Pulse - Production of second generation cell phones will cease early next year as domestic manufacturers switch to models based on code division multiple access 2000x1 (cdma 2000x1) technology, industry sources said Monday. LG Electronics said next year's model would be the last IS95B system-based cell phone to be manufactured locally and that it did not posses any noticeable technical improvements over existing sets. Instead it focused on design changes that would appeal to older customers. Officials for the electronic giant added that existing stocks of IS95B sets would be exhausted by the first quarter of next year. The current line of mobile phones first appeared in Sept. 1999 and contributed to raising the number of subscribers from around 20.3 million to just under 26.7 million by April this year. The sale of IS95B models suffered a setback when the government banned mobile phone operators from subsidizing handsets last year, but with the introduction of units capable of sending 64Kbps of wireless data, the second generation models were considered to have contributed to bringing about the wireless Internet age. Earlier IS95A models had a transmission speed of 14.4Kpbs. Cell phone manufacturers said that with the introduction of cdma 2000x1 eight months ago, the market share of IS95Bs has fallen from 41 percent in September to 21.7 percent in November and to under 10 percent this month. Anticipating demand toward next generation mobile phone sets, Samsung Electronics changed all its production lines to cdma2000 x1 in July, while other manufacturers are expected to finish the conversion process before the end of the year. (Yonhap)