South Korea to Promote CDMA to the North

Officials from South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication and five private companies, KT, SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Hyundai, are due to visit North Korea in an effort to promote CDMA technology for the country's planned national cellular network. The ministry's Byun Jae-il said that he expects North Korea to decide if it will support CDMA or GSM in the near future. "So far, several meetings have been made in areas of telecommunications between the two Koreas, but this is the first official event," he added.

A GSM network is currently being built in the Rajin-Sunbong free trade zone by Loxley Pacific, and a report by the Yonhap News agency, said that North Korea is scheduled to launch a mobile phone service in Pyongyang areas in October.'"

Posted to the site on 4th June 2002