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June 13, 2005
Mobile TV, WiBro leads future Korean information society
In a technology-mad country where people use their mobile phones to purchase products, check stock information and watch television, delivering voice communications is no longer the focal point of telecommunications.
Telephone operators, electronics makers and equipment vendors are looking beyond current wireless communications and broadband Internet services in search for the next mega-trend in telecommunications. Delivering technologies that offer better integrations between voice, video and data are becoming a priority, as companies rush to roll out their latest advancements to Korean consumers who become somewhat of a public beta test group for the rest of the world.
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The government is planning to deploy a next-generation portable Internet technology, dubbed WiBro for wireless broadband, designed to provide wider coverage than wireless LAN services and faster connections than third-generation mobile telephony. WiBro would offer a peak rate of 1 mbps on devices moving at speeds of about 70 kilometers per hour. The government aims for commercial services in 2006 and expects 10 million customers by 2008.
In January, the Ministry of Information and Communication allocated three licenses for portable Internet services to fixed-line operators KT Corp., Hanarotelecom Inc. and SK Telecom. The ministry had earlier allocated the 2.3Ghz band for portable Internet operations and approved the IEEE 802.16 standard as WiBro's base technology last year.
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HSDPA, a new third-generation mobile telephony specification, is designed to deliver data at a peak rate of 14.4 mbps (megabytes per second), better than current third-generation W-CDMA networks that are designed to offer data rates of 2 mbps.
From The Korean Herald, "Mobile TV, WiBro leads future information society," June 13, 2005.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/06/14/200506140020.asp
Posted by sjc at June 13, 2005 5:51 PM
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