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SK Telecom strengthens presence in wireless data service
1999.08.19Inaugurates new wireless data service n.Top
IS-95B service at 114Kbps to be available on Aug. 16
SK Telecom is launching a new Speed 011 wireless data service named "n.Top" and making available the world’s first 114Kbps IS-95B service starting on August 16.
n.Top is a wireless data service designed to offer substantive and useful contents encompassing wide-ranging subjects as the Korean society turns into a network-driven information society and the so-called "N-Generation" (short for Network Generation) is increasingly taking the center stage in the political, economic, social and cultural arena
New service features, - Wireless E-Commerce Service
- - Community News & Weather
- - Entertainment & Games
- - Personalized Information Service
- Wireless E-Commerce offers securities and investment analysis, bank account balance reference, money transfer service, credit card reference, insurance, ticket reservations, auctions and online transactions.
- Note 1) Securities and investment analysis service is scheduled to be launched in October and users can get securities information such as stock index, quotes and asking and settling prices, and trade stocks online (purchasing/selling).
- In addition, stocks recommended by securities firms, market forecasts, daily updates, investment and trading consulting services offered by well-known analysts as well as a service that calculates profit ratio of stocks of user’s choice will be available.
- Community News and Weather offers various news that users will find helpful such as daily news, weather, real estate information, traffic conditions and employment information over mobile phones.
- Entertainment & Games includes online games, culture, travel, sweepstakes, celebrity chats and new CD releases, mostly designed to appeal to the youth.
- Personalized Information Service helps individual users to organize their daily schedules, manage portfolios, send and receive e-mail, and build a personalized menu so that they can use their mobile phones as their personal assistants.
- SK Telecom wants to realize a network "on-the-move" by upgrading the lifestyles of mobile users with new service.
- A company official who works for the wireless data service division says, "Many mobile operators have competed with one another to offer new services that are very "out-of-touch" with what users really want and need. But n.TOP will deliver what users want and need over the mobile phone so that the contents they want to access are available anytime and anywhere."
- SK Telecom also launches the world’s first IS-95B service on August 16 coinciding with the launch of n.TOP. IS-95B is an intermediate level service soon to be replaced by more advanced IMT-2000 and has 64Kbps - 114Kbps transmission rates, which is eight times as fast as existing IS-95A.
- Because of this high-speed transmission capability, Speed 011 users will be able to hook up their mobile phones and notebook PCs to access online services comparable to wireline services such as Internet broadcasts.
To use service, users have to purchase handsets loaded with an MSM-3000 chip and if the handsets they currently have are either LG Michelle or Samsung SCH-7300 model, users can have them upgraded at a nearby SK Telecom office or the manufacturer’s customer service center.
- - Community News & Weather
- - Entertainment & Games
- - Personalized Information Service
- Wireless E-Commerce offers securities and investment analysis, bank account balance reference, money transfer service, credit card reference, insurance, ticket reservations, auctions and online transactions.
- Note 1) Securities and investment analysis service is scheduled to be launched in October and users can get securities information such as stock index, quotes and asking and settling prices, and trade stocks online (purchasing/selling).
- In addition, stocks recommended by securities firms, market forecasts, daily updates, investment and trading consulting services offered by well-known analysts as well as a service that calculates profit ratio of stocks of user’s choice will be available.
- Community News and Weather offers various news that users will find helpful such as daily news, weather, real estate information, traffic conditions and employment information over mobile phones.
- Entertainment & Games includes online games, culture, travel, sweepstakes, celebrity chats and new CD releases, mostly designed to appeal to the youth.
- Personalized Information Service helps individual users to organize their daily schedules, manage portfolios, send and receive e-mail, and build a personalized menu so that they can use their mobile phones as their personal assistants.
- SK Telecom wants to realize a network "on-the-move" by upgrading the lifestyles of mobile users with new service.
- A company official who works for the wireless data service division says, "Many mobile operators have competed with one another to offer new services that are very "out-of-touch" with what users really want and need. But n.TOP will deliver what users want and need over the mobile phone so that the contents they want to access are available anytime and anywhere."
- SK Telecom also launches the world’s first IS-95B service on August 16 coinciding with the launch of n.TOP. IS-95B is an intermediate level service soon to be replaced by more advanced IMT-2000 and has 64Kbps - 114Kbps transmission rates, which is eight times as fast as existing IS-95A.
- Because of this high-speed transmission capability, Speed 011 users will be able to hook up their mobile phones and notebook PCs to access online services comparable to wireline services such as Internet broadcasts.
To use service, users have to purchase handsets loaded with an MSM-3000 chip and if the handsets they currently have are either LG Michelle or Samsung SCH-7300 model, users can have them upgraded at a nearby SK Telecom office or the manufacturer’s customer service center.