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Articles tagged with: Pyongyang
Mobile Phones Popular in North Korea's Pyongyang
Mobile phones are proving surprisingly popular in the reclusive North Korea since they were launched late last year, although party officials have apparently been barred from using them. more
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N.Korea allows limited Internet cell phone service
North Korea has begun limited Internet service for mobile phone users, a government Web site reported, months after launching an advanced network in cooperation with an Egyptian telecommunications company. more
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North Korean 3G Network Signs Up 20,000 Subscribers
It has been reported that the 3G network launched late last year in North Korea has already signed up some 20,000 subscribers. The Japan based, pro-North Korea newspaper, Choson Sinbo reported the figures noting that the customers include foreigners allowed to work in the country. more
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Orascom Using Pyongyang's Ryugyong Hotel for Nth Korean 3G Network
Orascom Telecom - which is currently building a GSM/3G network in the secretive North Korea has apparently secured access to the mighty, if unfinished Ryugyong Hotel in pyongyang. The company has been reported by the few foreign residents permitted into the country to be working on the very top of the 105 story building and installing equipment for its mobile network. more
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Orascom Wins a 3G License - in North Korea
In what can only be described as a surprise announcement, Egypt's Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) says that it has been granted a 3G phone license in North Korea. The company says that it is the first commercial license, although that is not quite correct as there have been commercial GSM networks operating in the country in the past. more
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CDMA ban in North Korea could boost GSM opportunities
The Financial Times has reported that the USA government is putting pressure on South Korea to block plans for South Korean networks to build a cell phone network in the North's capital of pyongyang. The companies involved in the project include Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. more
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North Korea to get a CDMA network
The governments of North and South Korea are to co-operate on developing a mobile phone network in North Korea, the South's Ministry of Information and Communication has said. "North Korea is studying our proposal in detail," the Ministry said in a statement, and both sides agreed to meet again within the month, either in North Korea or China. The current plan involves building a CDMA based network in the capital city, pyongyang along with the port of Nampo. The next meeting will discuss the legal issues surrounding the Southern aid to the North. more
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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. more
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North Korean capital to get a GSM network
South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported that North Korea is considering setting up a cellular phone network in the country's capital, pyongyang. The agency's source quoted on condition of anonymity is a senior North Korean official at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and he was quoted as saying that a test service will be launched in the pyongyang area in cooperation with a foreign corporation. The network is expected to go live by September, and possibly as early as August. more
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