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To: Sawtooth who wrote (17557)	11/2/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: bananawind	Respond to of 152472

Thanks Tim. Here is the release... Motorola signs $100 mln Korean digital phone deal Reuters Story - November 02, 1998 15:44 SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Nov 2 (Reuters) - Telecommunications and technology conglomerate Motorola Inc. said Monday that South Korea's SK Telecom signed a $100 million deal for 400,000 of Motorola's new digital telephones. SK Telecom is South Korea's largest cellular service provider with over 5.5 million subscribers, Motorola said. Of those, 4.7 million use Code Division Multiple Access phones, which transmit voice into a stream of digital information. Motorola will supply its 800 MHz CDMA StarTAC phones in the initial phase. "We are pleased that SK Telecom has chosen Motorola CDMA digital phones," said Roger Kung, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Motorola's Asia Cellular Subscriber Group. "We're confident Korean consumers will find what consumers worldwide have found -- Motorola's StarTAC(TM) phones provide the utmost in convenience in a wearable form factor." Motorola has been racing to catch up in the digital phone war, as Nokia Ab and others gobbled up market share while Motorola prolonged launch of its digital handsets. Motorola said SK Telecom is ranked 8th worldwide in terms of number of subscribers. South Korea had 12.2 million mobile phone subscribers in service at the end of September 1998.