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KTF Considers Adopting Qualcomm FLO
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Tuesday, 29 November 2005

http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3127&Itemid=2

KTF, the second largest mobile carrier in Korea with more than 12.3m subscribers, expresses its discontent with the government’s DMB policies by considering adoption of Qualcomm FLO and Nokia DVB-H standard.

T.J Chae, KTF’s Strategy Planning Group Director said in a mobile broadcasting workshop in Jeju, “It doesn’t make sense that the government demands mobile carriers to cooperate unconditionally to its DMB policies in the name of “national interest”. We are considering the adoption of Qulacomm’s FLO or Nokia’s DVB-H in line with meeting global standards.”



He also said, “In satellite DMB business, SK Telecom would go ahead anyway though it seems to suffer losses because the business is in fact initiated by SKT. However, KTF has no compelling reason to do so.” “At a time when TU Media, the satellite DMB provider, doesn’t offer any chance to KTF to get shares in the company and the profit sharing is far short of even marketing cost, why should we be sticking our noses in the business?”, he asked.



He was critical about T-DMB, too. “Current business model would not bring about any profits to mobile carriers. It is nonsense for the government to force mobile carriers to be tied to the business for national interest.”, he argued.



By TelecomsKorea.com