(keitai-l) Re: Foma now more than 500.000 users

Without getting into a religious GSM v. CDMA argument, the Koreans have
been complaining for some time that they felt they backed the wrong
horse. Issues include: 

* Being dependant on a single company for technology
* Qualcomm being - how can I put this - 'difficult' to work with
* Scale economies of going with the global standard
* Being able to export to the global GSM/WCDMA market - just look at
Samsung flooding the GSM market in advance of 3G

There's a lot of industrial policy at play here. 

I'm curious as to why au hasn't tried to migrate the tu-ka subscribers
onto the au network. Any ideas? Why not pool the spectrum and customer
bases?



-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Ken Chang
Sent: 04 August 2003 12:10
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Foma now more than 500.000 users



> I'm not sure Tu-Ka was even in with a chance for a license.

there are strange things we can't understand, like SKT and KTF 
bought 3G UMTS license in Korea while they have been operating 
successfully the superior cdma2000 networks. 

though TU-KA's finacial condition has been poor, UMTS equipment 
is actually cheaper than the PDC network, and maybe they could 
have got a 5 MHz carrier in the Band-A (which is largely wasted). 

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