Korean government´s dilemma in technological choice for the IMT-2000 service: W-CDMA or cdma2000?

Author

Om, Kiyong ; Kim, Sung-Chul ; Yeo, In-Kap ; Park, Tae-Woong

Author_Institution

IT Manage. Res. Inst., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this presentation, the authors try to: (1) describe briefly the mobile communications market and terminal manufacturing industry of Korea; (2) analyze the argument of each stakeholder involved in the 3G licensing in terms of technical preference and its underlying reasons; (3) investigate policy changes of the Korean government over time in response to the pressures from the major stakeholders; and (4) finally derive some lessons for future improvement as well as for other countries in a similar situation

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; government policies; research and development management; 3G service licensing; IMT 2000 Service; Korea; W-CDMA; cdma2000; government policy; mobile communications market; policy changes; technical preference; terminal manufacturing industry; 3G mobile communication; Consumer electronics; Games; Globalization; Government; Licenses; Manufacturing industries; Multiaccess communication; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

1-890843-06-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2001.952388

Filename

952388