COM DEV's M/ERGY Used by SK Telecom to Launch World's First 3G Wireless Internet Service

date: December 12, 2001

COM DEV International today confirmed that its M/ERGY wireless infrastructure has been deployed by SK Telecom in the 3G high speed wireless data field service demonstration which it has commenced in Seoul Korea. SK Telecom announced in a press release dated 16 November that, having completed performance tests of equipment delivered by Contela (COM DEV's M/ERGY), Samsung and LG, it had become the first company in the world to offer commercial CDMA2000, 1xEVDO service by beginning operation of a demonstration network in Seoul on 17 November. COM DEV and Contela announced the sale of M/ERGY equipment to SK Telecom at the beginning of November.

According to SK Telecom, beginning next month, its 14 million subscribers will be first in the world to have access to this kind of high speed, wireless data service. Operating at speeds of up to 2.4 Mbits/second, it is as fast as wired ADSL. Subscribers will access the service using notebook computers and PDAs via small external modems or PCMCIA card terminals to be produced by major wireless terminal manufacturers such as Samsung, SK Teletech and GTran. SK Telecom plans to expand this new 1xEV-DO commercial service to other parts of Seoul and its suburbs beginning in March 2002 and to 26 other Korean cities beginning in April.

Said Mr. El Goong Kim, Head of the Network Business Division at SK Telecom, "We will be providing this advanced wireless data service six to twelve months ahead of any other service provider anywhere in the world." The high speed 1xEV-DO technology will allow users to watch streaming video or to download MP3 moving-image files in less than 10 seconds to hand held portable devices - this is more than 20 times the speed available using 2.5G technologies such as GPRS and 1xRTT and more than 10 times the speed currently available on NTT DoCoMo's W-CDMA i-mode service.

John Keating, COM DEV's Chief Operating Officer, said "For the first time in the world, a carrier is offering a 3G wireless mobile data service that can deliver 2.4 Mbits/second to a laptop or hand held computer device."

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