SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's mobile payments made for purchases of digital content or other inexpensive products may face a disruption as the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), the country's top trade regulator, has decided to force mobile service providers to provide users with a paper...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korean mobile operator KT ICOM, the wideband-CDMA subsidiary of KTF, said it will launch commercial W-CDMA services next June.International press reports said KT-ICOM signed a contract with LG Electronics on Tuesday to supply about $109 million worth of equipment for the...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin marketing a next-generation FOMA-compatible two-part terminal made up of a personal digital assistant base unit with a Bluetooth wireless handset.The base unit will feature a 3.5-inch color screen and a built-in camera, enabling 64 kilobits per second...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesSony EricssonSony Ericsson Mobile Communications introduced several new handsets, including the T61d, T600, ...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, announced that in cooperation with SK Telecom in Korea it launched an image data transmission service between users of the two operators. It is the first international image data transmission service, according to KDDI.Users of the service, called...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless reported a reciprocal roaming agreement with South Korean wireless operator SK Telecom allowing customers to use the same handset and phone number when on each carriers network. The agreement is scheduled to begin prior to the upcoming 2002 FIFA World Cup...
SAN DIEGO, United States—PacketVideo is targeting carriers with pv3 Mobilemedia system, a new multimedia delivery system that includes encoding, transmission and decoding products that enable delivery of high-quality audio and visual content and applications to mobile devices over current networks.Currently in trials with carriers,...
LUXEMBOURG—SK Telecom has selected Mach for the provision of its roaming and clearing services. Mach said it will support SK Telecom in the implementation and development of its inter-standard roaming business.SK Telecom has extended its CDMA roaming coverage in the Asia-Pacific region, and SK...
NEW YORK—The planned 5 January completion of the merger between SK Telecom and SK Shinsegi Telecom, which together control 52 percent of South Korea's mobile-phone customers, hit a roadblock at the 11th hour.At its 29 December meeting to review the transaction, the policy committee...
NEW YORK—The planned Jan. 5 completion of the merger between SK Telecom and SK Shinsegi Telecom, which together control 52 percent of South Korea's mobile phone customers, hit a roadblock at the eleventh hour.At its December 29 meeting to review the transaction, the policy...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, said it terminated its talks with SK Telecom over a business alliance including an investment. The carriers have carried out the bilateral talks, aimed at providing joint mobile service at the World Cup Soccer Games to...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says SK Telecom of Korea has selected its OMAP-based McubeWorks reference designs for 2.5G and third-generation cdma2001x networks.The company says SK Telecom plans "to conduct field trials of this multimedia service reference design providing CDMA wireless customers with a network...
TOKYO—Talks between Korea's SK Telecom and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have stalled without signs of moving forward, according to international press reports. The talks have been ongoing for more than a y ear and would involve DoCoMo taking a stake in SK Telecom of about...
AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc reported it is selling its 11.68-percent equity stake in Korean telecommunications company Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. for an undisclosed amount to SK Telecom Co. Ltd.
TOKYO—NEC, the leading high-tech enterprise in Japan, and Cybird, a mobile content provider, partnered for a content business in Korea. Under the deal, NEC acquired 15.4 percent of Cybird Korea, a business unit of Cybird in Korea. SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in...
SEOUL, Korea-SK Telecom, South Korea's largest wireless operator, said it will pull out of the fixed-line business to focus on its mobile services, according to international press reports. The company said it would sell its 6.1-percent stake in Hanaro Telecom as part of the...
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
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...
WASHINGTON-The White House, in the first official expression of wireless trade policy, said it supports technology neutrality but did not signal it planned to take as aggressive a stance as the previous administration in responding to the Korean government's manipulation of the licensing process...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
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...
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...
