Korea may force 3G settlement

date: November 30, 2001 - source: Siemens UMTS NewsDesk

The Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea has committed itself to formally allocating necessary frequencies for the country's 3G networks by the end of November.

The allocation has been delayed due to a dispute between SK Telecom and the LG fronted consortium about the use of the B frequency band. The discussions still continue between the two, but the government has said that it will intervene if a decision cannot be reached by the end of November. SK wants the frequency to support W-CDMA trials with DoCoMo's network. However, the government promised the spectrum to LG as the cdma2000 operator.

The Korean government issued two WCDMA licenses to Korean telecom and SK Telecom at $1.10 billion each in December 2000 and a third 3G license using the technology cdma2000 to LG Telecom at $0.88 billion on August 2001.

On November, SK Telecom has successfully commercialized the world's first CDMA2000 1x service and announces that the company is launching a field test of the world's first synchronized 3G(CDMA2000 1x EVDO, Evolution-Data Optimized) service started on November 17, and is planning to initiate full-fledged commercial service by March 2002.

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