SK Telecom

HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group last week announced support for Qualcomm Inc.’s High Data Rate technology as a third-generation technology, but agreed to leave room open for other competing technologies …

SEOUL, South Korea-Korea Telecom has agreed to purchase a 48-percent stake in Korean wireless operator Hansol M.com for $2.6 billion. Bell Canada International Inc., American International Group Inc. and South …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and SK Telecom announced extensive planning guidelines for third-generation IMT-2000 networks including coverage design, radio resource management, handover parameter planning and other planning and optimization procedures. Nokia …

SEOUL, South Korea-Korean operator SK Telecom said it will launch commercial cdma2000 1X service in the fourth-quarter, using equipment from Samsung Electronics. Samsung and SK Telecom said the 1X system …

The wireless industry shouldn’t be surprised about the confusion surrounding China Unicom’s cdmaOne technology deployment plans in China. After all, the prospect of widespread cdmaOne technology deployments have been uncertain …

Bad news hit the cdmaOne community last week as the South Korean government put a stop to cdmaOne handset subsidies and uncertainty lingered about China Unicom’s plans to deploy the …

South Korean mobile phone carrier Hansol M.com said talks to sell a controlling stake in the company to either Korea Telecom or the LG Group had broken down. The problems …

Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has been able to do to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor. To do that, Kyocera needs …

SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless operator, acquired 51.2 percent of Shinsegi Telecom from Pohang Iron and Steel for about $961.2 million. Posco will hold 6.5 percent of …

SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea’s major telecommunications operators are scrambling to reshape their businesses to secure a position ahead of the competition this year for the much-coveted third-generation (3G) licenses. However, …

Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has done to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor. Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of …

NEW YORK-Consumer perception of Korea Telecom as “slow moving and bureaucratic, but quite good at service provision,” has helped, not hindered, its subsidiary Korea Telecom Freetel, said Sang-Chul Lee, president …

Handsets Kyocera Kyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images …

Lucent Technologies announced three technical initiatives designed to increase capacity in TDMA equipment. The company announced a series of software enhancements developed by Bell Laboratories to increase frequency re-use; as …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service has changed to stable from negative its outlook on $279 million in Ba1-rated debt securities issued by SK Telecom Co. Ltd., Seoul, South Korea. “The change …

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 …

The battle among South Korea’s five mobile phone carriers has become so intense that the Ministry of Information and Communication has prodded the carriers to voluntarily address problems brought on …

NEW YORK-After a six-month review, Moody’s Investors Service July 22 confirmed the investment-grade rating of Baa1 on about $280 million in dollar-denominated debt issued by Seoul-based SK Telecom Co. Ltd., …

Bell Canada International Inc. said it will acquire 29 percent of South Korean personal communications services operator Hansol PCS Co. Ltd. for $180 million. Hansol is one of three PCS …

Ericsson forms office mobility unit ATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace. Ericsson said the …

ATLANTA-While it’s evident most of the world’s standards bodies will adopt some form of Code Division Multiple Access technology for next- generation systems, the CDMA Development Group said it is …

South Koreans were eager to sign up for mobile phone service during the last few months of 1997, but some analysts speculate carriers will hit difficult times in 1998 as …

European Telecommunications Standards Institute members last week reached a consensus agreement for a third-generation mobile phone standard, incorporating two major proposals that were on the table. The agreement came after …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service placed the ratings of the Republic of Korea and the publicly held foreign currency debt of its major companies under review for possible downgrade. Telecommunications carriers …

SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it plans to install its InfoVision system in South Korean mass transit, which will give passengers news, weather, traffic, sports and business information from an …