Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
SK Telecom, South Korea's largest mobile operator, has launched the world's first handset-based HSDPA network in cities across southern Korea using wireless broadband technology from LG-Nortel, a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel.
HSDPA has been launched elsewhere but only for data services via plug in laptop cards. With the service available from handsets, SKT says it plans to offer high definition video-on-demand, MP3 streaming, multi-user mobile gaming, video calling, multimedia messaging and a host of other high bandwidth services.
SK Telecom's service is branded '3G+' and will initially cover 25 cities across the country. Rollout to an additional 59 cities planned by the end of the year.
HSDPA offers a theoretical maximum download speed of 14.4 Mbps, but current devices support a maximum speed of only 1.8 Mbps. SKT says the downlink speed is expected to rise to 3.6Mbps by early next year, 7.2Mbps by the end of next year and 14.4Mbps by 2008.
The service is available initially on the Samsung W200, a slide-up satellite DMB phone with a 2.0 mega pixel camera selling for a little over 700,000 won ($US740). However, the actual handset cost is predicted to be around 400,000 won ($US420) after subsidies.
Bang Hyung Lee, executive vice-president and chief marketing officer of SK Telecom, said LG-Nortel had been instrumental in helping the company launch the service in a very short timescale.
According to LG-Nortel chairman, Peter MacKinnon, "This announcement is another step on the road to deploying the next-generation of wireless network, or HSOPA/LTE, based on OFDM-MIMO, technologies in which Nortel has over seven years of innovation and several patents."
Nortel says it achieved the industry's first HSDPA mobile call in January 2005, and that with LG Electronics it completed the first live test calls using a commercial handset solution for HSDPA in March 2005.
LG-Nortel is a joint venture between LG Electronics and Nortel, officially launched on November 3, 2005. Its main divisions are Carrier Networks and Enterprise Networks businesses. Prior to the establishment of the joint venture, LG Electronics and Nortel had a close collaboration and were selected as network suppliers for KTF and SK Telecom's HSDPA/WCDMA networks. The company employs approximately 1,400 people.
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