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To: marginmike who wrote (22587)	2/6/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Korea> Query String : ( qualcomm ) Totally 1 found Search Period : 1999.01.23-1999.02.06 Result List Target Media : KoreaTimes(All) Birth of Int'l CDMA Consultative Body Urged 1999/02/01(Mon) 17:24 Information and Communication Minister Namgoong Suek yesterday proposed the establishment of an international consultative body for code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. In a speech commemorating the signing by Samsung Electronics of a contract to export CDMA technology to Hutchison Telecom Australia at the Hotel Shilla yesterday, Namgoong said that CDMA mobile service providers would expand the number of their CDMA mobile phone subscribers and improve services by forming the international consultative body. He said, ''The body is also aimed at resolving roaming problems, expanding services and exchanging operating know-how among operators.'' Namgoong was addressing the fact that CDMA technology has not been widely disseminated despite its qualifications to act as a global system for mobile communications (GSM). CDMA is the most advanced digital mobile phone service technology available and has been successfully commercialized by Korea with the basic technology developed by Qualcomm Inc. of the United States. Samsung Electronics Co. won a $210 million contract to provide digital CDMA technology and operation know-how to Hutchison Telecom Austalia in mid-December of last year. Samsung, Korea's largest semiconductor and telecommunications equipment manufacturer, beat world-renowned Lucent Technologies, Motorola Inc. and Northern Telecom in the international bidding. A Samsung official said that his company is to export the technology, including cellular network planning, network installation, operation and maintenance for the next 10 years on a turnkey basis. This is the largest order that a Korean CDMA technology holder has ever received. Samsung has already been chosen as a wireless equipment supplier for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which entitles it to supply wireless systems and 70,000 mobile handsets to Australia. The official said that Samsung will supply equipment for switching stations, call relaying base stations and transmission while also providing design and installation services and testing and operating the system for two years up to 2001. Samsung has also secured the right to install an additional system and to maintain it for eight years after the start-up. ''As a commercializer of advanced digital mobile phone service technology, the export contract is a momentous event, symbolizing the high status of Korea's CDMA technology and its future direction,'' said Yun Jong-yong, president of Samsung Electronics. The ceremony was attended by foreign ambassadors, foreign and local bankers and leading figures in CDMA equipment manufacturing and cellular service providers.