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To: John Biddle who wrote (29082)	11/19/2002 7:17:41 AM
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GLOBECOM experts laud Taiwan 2002/11/19, William C. Pao,The China Post chinapost.com.tw GLOBECOM 2002, a major annual conference held by the Communication Society (ComSoc) under the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), kicked off in Taipei yesterday, with President Chen Shui-bian promising to deliver advanced broadband networks throughout the island and Kurt Hellstrom, president and CEO of Ericsson, giving a positive outlook for Taiwan's mobile Internet market. This is the first time Taipei has hosted GLOBECOM 2002, an event that gathers some of the most important players in the global communications industry to discuss issues and trends. The choosing of Taipei as the host city for this year's conference indicates the island's status in the world, said guests of the opening ceremony. "Taipei's hosting of the gathering has significant meanings," said President Chen Shui-bian through videoconferencing between the Presidential Office and Taipei International Convention Center, where the conference is taking place. "The advent of the digital age has changed the way people live. The government's Challenge 2008 project will further develop Taiwan into a green silicon island where government and business operations are digitized," Chen continued. "Taiwan already has 20 percent of its online population using broadband Internet access. The government will continue to build fast-speed Internet networks throughout the island to fulfill the goal of signing up six million broadband users by 2008." GLOBECOM 2002 coincides with the 50th anniversary of ComSoc, whose global membership of 60,000 and more than 20 technical committees make it the second largest professional organizations under the IEEE. To celebrate the occasion, the conference's chief sponsor, Chunghwa Telecom, invited six of the communications giants in the world to speak at a 50th anniversary special session yesterday. "The title of the special session is 'Over the Horizon,'" said Mao Chih-kuo, chairman of Chunghwa Telecom and general chair of GLOBECOM 2002. "Whereas the discussions held in New York earlier this year focused on the development of the industry over the past 50 years, the subjects discussed here are about forward-looking technologies." The highlights of the five-day conference are three keynote addresses held yesterday, today and tomorrow delivered by Kurt Hellstrom, president and CEO of Ericsson; Mario Rivas, executive vice president of Philips Semiconductors; and Keiji Tachikawa, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, respectively. Hellstrom said yesterday in his keynote address that mobile communication is a growth market, despite short-term uncertainties at a time when investors and rating companies show nervousness about the sector. "Only 17 percent of the entire population of the world have a mobile device, that is, only 17 people out of every 100 have one," Hellstrom said. "Right now, there's irrationality in the market. But rationality has to come back." The subject of mobile Internet dominated Hellstrom's speech. He said Taiwan is expected to become an important market for added-value data services. "It is a competitive market. It's going into third-generation telecommunications services, or 3G, and a lot of progress have been made in this area," he said, adding: "With Taiwan's mobile penetration rate of over 100 percent, and Japan's 80 percent mobile Internet usage — the largest in the world — the Asia-Pacific region will drive the growth of mobile Internet." A highlight of his keynote was a demonstration of mobile Internet applications already launched or to be rolled out in the future under 3G. Among the applications Hellstrom showed were news clips transmitted at 27 kilobits per second (Kbps), music videos at 192 Kbps and sports clips at 220 Kbps. The latter two require 3G networks to enable users to see sharp and unbroken images. The CEO went on to say his company has solutions for both GSM and CDMA 1 operators to migrate into W-CDMA and CDMA 2000 1x EV technologies, respectively. GSM and CDMA 1 are 2G standards, whereas W-CDMA and CDMA 2000 1x EV are 3G standards. "We've got the experience in Japan, Austria and other countries. We're the first solutions provider to complete a GPRS to W-CDMA handover," he said.