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Korean govt to focus on 9 IT areas over next 20-30 yrs

SEOUL, Mar 28, 2003 (Asia In Focus via COMTEX) -- The Ministry of Information and Communication will focus on the development of nine promising IT areas, including intelligent robotics and telematiks, over the next 20-30 years. Officials said the Ministry will also push for the introduction of a real name system in all public Internet forums.

* However, the Ministry plans to postpone nationwide services of a new third generation (3G) mobile service, better known as IMT-2000, until after 2006.

* The government had planned to introduce the 2GHz 3G service based on W-CDMA technology nationwide by 2006 as it expected the current frequency range to reach its maximum capacity this year.

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KEYWORD: South Korea
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: Telecommunications
Technology
Computers/IT