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To: foundation who wrote (109959)	12/27/2001 6:47:56 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 152472

What is going on in Korea that would stop them from deploying the most readically advanced communications network in the entire world. KTF and SKT each paid around $1 billion for the spectrum to put together a 5 MHZ spectrum that will encompass their existing 1.25 MHZ of CDMA2000 technology. Think about the introduction of 1X EV in Korea next year. They will be streaming data at 2.4 Mbps with almost no capacity constraints. When you bundle 4 of these channels for seperate voice and data applications, the data throughput would be held at the optimal 2.4 MBPS speed. Samsung has already said they can upgrade 1XEV speeds to 5 or 10 MBPS over time with additional software upgrades that Qualcomm has prepared. It only takes 150 kbps to stream video very efficiently for digital video, audio, or data. The tradeoff between capacity and data speed has been the biggest criticism for wireless data. That argument has been effectively silenced by QCOM's demonstration of capacity gains in a 1X environment. The more 1X channels, the greater the gains. Korea is not going to screw around with their lead time in CDMA2000 and WCDMA networks. They are in position to capture a lot of market share from Nokia in China next year when they demonstrate their mult-network equipment.