SK Telecom expands CDMA2000 roaming services to China and Japan

April 14, 2004

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) congratulates SK Telecom on its recent launch of the world's first high-speed wireless data roaming service between China, Japan and Korea. SK Telecom's CDMA2000 subscribers can enjoy their many high-speed data services along with traditional voice call automatic roaming, SMS, multimedia applications and calling number identification service while traveling in China and Japan.

"International roaming is an important part of the customer experience today and the CDMA industry is expanding coverage and developing solutions to provide seamless access to services across international boarders," said Perry LaForge, executive director, CDG. "Since CDMA2000 was built with data in mind and is widely deployed around the world, CDMA2000 operators are well positioned to lead the industry in providing global data roaming services. SK Telecom has just demonstrated this."

SK Telecom launched its Wireless Data Automatic Roaming Services in Beijing and Shanghai in November 2003, and recently expanded the service to twelve provinces in China and throughout Japan. With the service, SKT's customers have access to NATE, a popular wireless Internet service, and can send pictures, receive news and perform financial transactions. While in China, they are also able to enjoy June services, which offer access to multimedia content such as MMS, TV broadcasts, streaming video, video-on-demand and music-on-demand.

At the end of March, SK Telecom reported that it had more than 18 million subscribers, including 17 million wireless Internet users.