NEW YORK—A new alliance with Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting is part of an overall plan for LG Telecom to compete successfully with South Korea’s two larger wireless operators, said Yong Nam, president and chief executive officer.In late April, Martin Lee, chief financial officer, told...
SEOUL, South Korea—CDMA operators LG Telecom of South Korea and Japan's KDDI Corp. said they have set up a "worldwide CDMA belt" through a technology and marketing cooperation.Under the plan, the two companies will ally with CDMA operators in Australia, China, India, Latin America,...
SEOUL, Korea—Personal digital assistant (PDA) maker Handspring scored a major deal with GrandTech Korea and LG TeleCom to distribute Handspring PDAs working on LG's wireless network to Korean customers.Wireless service for Handspring's Visor line of PDAs will work through a CDMA Springboard module for...
SEOUL, Korea—Personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc. scored a major deal with GrandTech Korea and LG TeleCom to distribute Handspring PDAs working over LG's wireless network to Korean customers.Wireless service for Handspring's Visor line of PDAs will work through a CDMA Springboard module for...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-In its semi-annual update, the CDMA Development Group said it believes that thus far, 2001 has been a successful one for CDMA technology, as proven by rapid subscriber growth, deployment of two third-generation CDMA2000 networks, by Korea's LG Telecom and KT Freetel,...
SEOUL, South Korea-LG Telecom and Hanaro have ended a dispute to jointly bid on South Korea's third and final third-generation wireless license based on cdma2000 technology. LG Telecom plans to partner with a foreign company to take more than 50 percent of the consortium.LG...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea is confronting a row over awarding a third license for third-generation (3G) mobile services, as the government has called for consolidation in the telecom market as a precondition for re-starting the long-delayed spectrum auction.The confusion was sparked in mid-June, when...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The number of global CDMA subscribers grew by 58 percent during the past year to 90 million customers worldwide, according to the CDMA Development Group.The Asia Pacific continued as the largest CDMA market with nearly 40 million users, representing a 25- percent...
GENEVA-How the mighty have fallen. British Telecommunications (BT), once ranked among the world's most powerful carriers, is finding itself buckling under a crippling mountain of debt in a climate where raising equity in the telecom/information technology (IT) sector has hit an all-time low. In...
Brandishing Korea as a model, the CDMA Development Group looks at the future of its technology through rose-tinted lenses.With the battle for market share boiling up over the next generation of technologies and the wideband CDMA protocol gearing up for dominance, last week the...
NEW YORK-The recent "Internet & E-Business Conference & Expo" brought together a host of players occupying various niches in cyberspace, and some may become shining stars in the wireless galaxy.Boston-based WebMap Technologies Inc. has developed a proprietary content mapping software that turns pixels into...
SEOUL, South Korea-As South Korea postponed plans to select a third and final third-generation (3G) mobile service operator, the government's enthusiasm for a viable bidder is greater than ever. But potential bidders seem unimpressed, putting the 3G license itself into doubt.The Ministry of Information...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea awarded much-coveted third-generation (3G) mobile service licenses to SK Telecom, the country's largest mobile carrier, and state-run Korea Telecom on 15 December. The race, however, is not over, analysts said.The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), which handled the licensing...
HONG KONG-"Third-generation services are here," proclaimed the advertisements from Qualcomm at International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000. "The wait is over." Korea's SK Telecom was the first operator to deploycdma2000, noted Terry Yen, Asia Pacific director of the CDMA Development Group. SK Telecom...
SEOUL, South Korea-The South Korean government awarded two third-generation (3G) licenses out of a total three-one to SK Telecom, the country's largest mobile provider, and one to sate-run Korea Telecom.The third license will be awarded early next year.The government rejected bids by LG Telecom...
SEOUL, South Korea-Four South Korean telecom companies have applied for one of three third-generation (3G) licenses. The licenses, to be awarded through a modified beauty contest by the end of 2000, will bring in at least US$2.7 billion for the government.SK Telecom, Korea Telecom,...
Hong KongHong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) will use a "hybrid" method-a prequalification followed by an auction-to allocate four third-generation (3G) mobile services licenses early next year. New market entrants must compete with Hong Kong's six incumbent operators. Hutchison Telecom, Pacific Century...
Korea-based LG TeleCom Co. Ltd. moved one step closer to Java-enabled handsets last week, announcing a collaboration with AppStream Inc. to use AppStream's Java software technology solution in its next generation of ez-i CDMA handsets.AppStream's agreement with LG TeleCom will increase the adoption rate...
SEOUL, South Korea-The South Korean Ministry of Information and Communication has extended the deadline for third-generation mobile licenses until the end of October, one month later than its original deadline.The postponement is due to a dispute over technology standards, Reuters reported.The country's three expected...
NEW YORK-Korea Telecom Freetel, the second-largest wireless provider in South Korea, is leaning toward deploying new technology in the third-generation license band.As recently as late June, Y.D. Hong, KT Freetel's chief financial officer, told securities analysts at a public forum in New York that...
NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week's Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of Qualcomm's proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1X enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to consider.Qualcomm has aggressively marketed HDR...
Finland. Sonera began offering High Speed Circuit Switched Data services to its data customers 6 September, but without available handsets. Sonera said it wanted to be ready when handsets are available later this year.France. At Telecom '99 in Geneva, Alcatel, French carrier SFR/Cegetel, Phone.com...
SEOUL, South Korea-Despite the financial crisis in Asia, the wireless telephony market has performed better than expected in South Korea. The number of cellular and PCS subscribers in the country more than doubled from 5.6 million at the end October 1997 to more than...
