Demonstration of World's First IMT-2000 VIDEO Phone Roaming between KT ICOM of Korea and J-Phone of Japan on W-CDMA

date: June 26, 2002

KT ICOM today announced that it has successfully demonstrated international video phone roaming between IMT-2000 mobile networks in Korea and Japan.

The historic video call was made between Dr. Young-Chu Cho, President and CEO of KT ICOM and Mr. John Thompson, Executive Corporate Officer and CTO of J-Phone in Seoul and Tokyo respectively. KT ICOM says that the success of this type of roaming is the first achievement of its kind in the world.

The demonstrated items were: (1) Video and voice call from/to roaming J-Phone subscribers in KT ICOM network in Korea, and (2) Video and voice call from/to roaming KT ICOM subscribers in J-Phone network in Japan, and results were clear visual and voice conversation between the two IMT-2000 networks. KT ICOM's network equipment has been provided by LG Electronics and J-Phone's network equipment has been provided by Ericsson. LG Electronics has also provided KT ICOM with IMT-2000 mobile phones with video telephony capability for roaming on J-Phone network in Japan.

"This is a start of what IMT-2000 can offer to customers, a differentiated roaming service with extended capabilities", said Dr. Yeon-Hak Kim, Vice President of Corporate Planning of KT ICOM. "KT ICOM plans to provide international roaming service for not only voice but also video and data roaming capabilities and eventually offering virtual home environment (VHE) as the ultimate roaming service."

KT ICOM plans to begin the full-scale commercial IMT-2000 service in the first half of next year.

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