IMT2000 and Beyond IMT2000 in Korea

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IMT-2000 and Beyond IMT-2000in Korea
The 7th ASTAP Forum 4-8 August 2003
Jung Sik Park Manager, International
Cooperation TTA
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Contents

• Current Status on IMT-2000 in Korea
• Beyond IMT-2000 activities in Korea
• Related TTA activities

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Current Status on IMT-2000 in Korea

• Reorganization of 3G Operators
• KT Freetel and KT iCOM Merged into KT Freetel
  2003. 3
• SK Telecom and SKIMT will be Merged into SK
  Telecom 2003. 2Q
• IMT-2000 Operators in Korea
• 2 Companies for W-CDMA SK Telecom, KT Freetel
• 3 Companies for cdma2000 LG Telecom, SK
  Telecom, KT Freetel

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Current Status on IMT-2000 in Korea

• cdma2000
• Operators SK Telecom, KT Freetel, LG Telecom
• 2000. 10. cdma2000 1x
• 2002. 1. cdma2000 1x EV-DO
• 2002. 6. Experience service in 2002 FIFA World
  Cup
• Subscribers (2003. 5) cdma2000 1x (about 19.5
  millions)
• cdma2000 1x
  EV-DO (about 1.3 millions)

Source MIC
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Current Status on IMT-2000 in Korea

• W-CDMA
• Operators SK Telecom, KT Freetel
• 2002. 6. W-CDMA trial service in 2002 FIFA
  World Cup
• 2002. 10. W-CDMA trial service in 2002 Asian
  Games
• 2003. Start commercial W-CDMA Service in
  Metropolitan
• Area(KTF/SKT)

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Beyond IMT-2000 activities in Korea

• NGMC(Next Generation (Global) Mobile
  Communication) Forum
• Objectives
• To set up a vision of next generation mobile
  communication through analysis of social and
  technological trends
• To set up a plan and strategy through developing
  of technologies, standardization and
  international coordination
• To set up a plan of utilizing of spectrum
• Will be established in July 2003.

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Beyond IMT-2000 activities in Korea

• NGMC(Next Generation (Global) Mobile
  Communication) Forum
• Structure

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Related TTA Activities

• IMT-2000 Project Group (PG01)
• Established on July, 1999
• Chairman Jin Sung Choi (LG Electronics)
• ToR
• Establishing IMT-2000 Technical Specifications
• Building a strategy on the evolution of mobile
  communication
• Keeping up with the activities of 3GPP and 3GPP2
• Keeping up with the activities of B3G

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Related TTA Activities

• IMT-2000 Project Group (PG01)
• Structure

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Related TTA Activities

• No. of Established Standards in IMT-2000 Project
  Group

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Related TTA Activities

• No. of TTA standards in IMT-2000 Project Group
  which have been submitted to ITU

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Related TTA Activities

• TTA activities relationship on Beyond IMT-2000

Strong
IMT-2000 Project Group
Week
SDR Ad hoc
WG01.10 System/ Service
WG01.11 Beyond IMT-2000
WG01.12 RAN
WG01.13 Network
WG01.14 Spectrum/ circulation
Upgrade Future development of 3G
Beyond IMT-2000
3GPP 3GPP2
ITU-R WP8F / ITU-T SSG
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Related TTA Activities

• ARIB-CCSA-TTA-TTC B3G Standards Collaboration
• Contact point of TTA Jin Sung Choi (PG01
  Chairman)
• Now discussing about collaboration areas and
  methodology
• Preparatory meeting held in April
• CJK B3G Standards Collaboration meeting will be
  established in 3rd CJK IT Meeting