Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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South Korea looking towards 4G
December 17, 2003
The gloomy outlook for 3G mobile technology worldwide has led to some
countries already looking at 4G mobile networks. Companies, including
Flarion, ArrayComm, IP Wireless, Navini and Nortel Networks, are testing
or have tested their 4G technologies with potential operators in South
Korea.
SK Telecom will test high-speed 4G mobile services with Flarion, a spin
off of the Lucent Technologies research arm Bell Labs.
"We will implement Flarion's 4G technology on a trial basis in an
area around our research and development centre in Bundang," said
SK Telecom spokesman Kwon Chul-keun.
SK Telecom has already launched 3G mobile services based on Qualcomm's
CDMA2000 1X technology and will later this month bring out another 3G
mobile service using WCDMA.
South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication is expected to
develop a home-grown 4G network technology that would be used by the country's
operators and hopefully market it abroad. Samsung Electronics and Electronics
& Telecommunications Research Institute are developing the home-grown
Korean standard and aims to complete it by the end of 2004. The awarding
of 4G licenses could be delayed until the standard is ready.
Foreign companies are not so keen on the home-grown standard idea.
"The Korean government must rethink its plan to develop home-grown
4G technology in terms of efficiency and stability," said the general
manager of Flarion's Asia-Pacific division Kim Hong-jin.
It would take a long time for technical endorsement and several years
for the home-grown standard to be market ready, Kim added.
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