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Discussion with 33 engineers from UHMCC centers on Chinese market prospects.
SK Telecom President Pyo Moon-soo engaged in animated discussions with 33 engineers responsible for Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications Co. operations spanning a total of 31 Chinese cities and provinces. The session, which was held at the SK Telecom Head Office at 4PM on May 24, covered where the Chinese mobile communications market is headed and what SK Telecom plans for this market.
President Pyo predicted, ?China will emerge as the world?s largest mobile communications market, with 200 million subscribers by the end of 2003. Over the next 1-2 years, competition will center on expanding coverage and traffic volume in China. After this stage, perhaps as early as sometime next year, competition will shift toward value-added services and wireless data services.?
Commenting on plans to advance into China, the SK Telecom President said, ?We are already engaged with China Unicom on a variety of fronts, including network design, value-added services, roaming, and marketing. Now strategic alliances are needed among major Asian service providers to build a unified call zone throughout China, Korea and Japan. At the same time, we must develop global standards that correspond with those in Europe and North America.?
The Chinese engineers are in Korea for training on CDMA engineering training May 14-27. The two-week program covers switching network and transmission network technology as well as network construction technology.
In addition to this program SK Telecom will provide a training on network operation, to include base station monitoring and call quality assessment, in June (23-29). This will be followed by a program on marketing strategies, billing policies, and strategies for distribution and customer satisfaction in August (21-30).
The training is part of a cooperation agreement signed between SK Telecom and China Unicom in March. The trainees are core people from Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, which is scheduled to launch China?s first CDMA service at the end of this year. SK Telecom officials expect this training to put Korean companies with an advantageous position related to the export of mobile communications hardware and technology to China.
Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom, was established to take over the company?s CDMA service operations. China Unicom currently provides GSM services and is listed on the Chinese and Hong Kong stock markets.
President Pyo predicted, ?China will emerge as the world?s largest mobile communications market, with 200 million subscribers by the end of 2003. Over the next 1-2 years, competition will center on expanding coverage and traffic volume in China. After this stage, perhaps as early as sometime next year, competition will shift toward value-added services and wireless data services.?
Commenting on plans to advance into China, the SK Telecom President said, ?We are already engaged with China Unicom on a variety of fronts, including network design, value-added services, roaming, and marketing. Now strategic alliances are needed among major Asian service providers to build a unified call zone throughout China, Korea and Japan. At the same time, we must develop global standards that correspond with those in Europe and North America.?
The Chinese engineers are in Korea for training on CDMA engineering training May 14-27. The two-week program covers switching network and transmission network technology as well as network construction technology.
In addition to this program SK Telecom will provide a training on network operation, to include base station monitoring and call quality assessment, in June (23-29). This will be followed by a program on marketing strategies, billing policies, and strategies for distribution and customer satisfaction in August (21-30).
The training is part of a cooperation agreement signed between SK Telecom and China Unicom in March. The trainees are core people from Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, which is scheduled to launch China?s first CDMA service at the end of this year. SK Telecom officials expect this training to put Korean companies with an advantageous position related to the export of mobile communications hardware and technology to China.
Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom, was established to take over the company?s CDMA service operations. China Unicom currently provides GSM services and is listed on the Chinese and Hong Kong stock markets.