Korea's Cutting Edge Mobile Phone Technology: An Update
Cutting edge wireless services are springing up in South Korea and part of everyday life on the East Asian peninsula. Three forces are driving this: the nation’s advanced networks, world-class cell phone makers (Samsung and LG), and Net-savvy people. In fact, Korea boasts of the world’s highest per-capita broadband Internet use with 12 million of its total 15 million households hooked up to the always-on Internet and more than 36 million of its 48 million population carry at least one handset.
Key factors…
1. Korea has already embarked on the wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA), known as a genuine third-generation (3G) mobile application.
2. Watching TV programs on the move is also possible thanks to the satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), a mobility-specific broadcasting initiated in January for a test run.
3. In 2006, more new wireless technologies are expected to come to town like WiBro, the homegrown portable Internet, terrestrial location-based service (LBS), and zigbee phone, a must for home networking.
4. The host of new wireless options will create a mesh of Internet technologies that will provide connections at any place and at any time.
Move to 4G
According to experts, there is no consensual definition for 4G mobile technologies, at least for now, but we can get a glimpse of what it will be like through 3.5G solutions like high-speed data packet access (HSDPA) and WiBro.
Separately from W-CDMA and HSDPA, Korea developed its own 3.5G mobile platform called WiBro, an acronym for wireless broadband.
WiBro, formerly known as the 2.3GHz portable Internet due to its frequency bandwidth, also lets people on the move remain connected to the Web at the speed of current broadband of about 2 Mbps.
The government has issued three seven-year WiBro licenses to KT, SK Telecom and Hanaro Telecom. The operators plan to jump-start the homegrown service early next year.
More gadgets…
TU Media, an affiliate of SK Telecom has begun a pilot run of the world’s first mobile phone-based satellite DMB and plans to set off commercial launch in May 2005.
Satellite DMB empowers people on the road to enjoy seamless video, CD-quality audio and data via small devices or in-automobile terminals.
Currently, TU Media provides three video and six audio channels, but the number would increase to 14 and 24, respectively, in May and three data programs will be added next year.
In addition, free terrestrial DMB will come into existence in Seoul and the surrounding Kyonggi Province in May with six video, 18 audio and six data channels.
According to Korea Times the government is scheduled to finalize six terrestrial DMB service providers _ three for over-the-air broadcasters and the other three for other players.
Key factors…
1. Korea has already embarked on the wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA), known as a genuine third-generation (3G) mobile application.
2. Watching TV programs on the move is also possible thanks to the satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), a mobility-specific broadcasting initiated in January for a test run.
3. In 2006, more new wireless technologies are expected to come to town like WiBro, the homegrown portable Internet, terrestrial location-based service (LBS), and zigbee phone, a must for home networking.
4. The host of new wireless options will create a mesh of Internet technologies that will provide connections at any place and at any time.
Move to 4G
According to experts, there is no consensual definition for 4G mobile technologies, at least for now, but we can get a glimpse of what it will be like through 3.5G solutions like high-speed data packet access (HSDPA) and WiBro.
Separately from W-CDMA and HSDPA, Korea developed its own 3.5G mobile platform called WiBro, an acronym for wireless broadband.
WiBro, formerly known as the 2.3GHz portable Internet due to its frequency bandwidth, also lets people on the move remain connected to the Web at the speed of current broadband of about 2 Mbps.
The government has issued three seven-year WiBro licenses to KT, SK Telecom and Hanaro Telecom. The operators plan to jump-start the homegrown service early next year.
More gadgets…
TU Media, an affiliate of SK Telecom has begun a pilot run of the world’s first mobile phone-based satellite DMB and plans to set off commercial launch in May 2005.
Satellite DMB empowers people on the road to enjoy seamless video, CD-quality audio and data via small devices or in-automobile terminals.
Currently, TU Media provides three video and six audio channels, but the number would increase to 14 and 24, respectively, in May and three data programs will be added next year.
In addition, free terrestrial DMB will come into existence in Seoul and the surrounding Kyonggi Province in May with six video, 18 audio and six data channels.
According to Korea Times the government is scheduled to finalize six terrestrial DMB service providers _ three for over-the-air broadcasters and the other three for other players.
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