South Korea - Mobile Market - 3G & Mobile Data

Synopsis

South Korea is considered a leader in Third Generation mobile technology and has the world’s highest percentage of mobile users on 3G. WCDMA, the second 3G standard to enter the Korean market after CDMA2000, became commercially available in December 2003, though the service initially failed to attract a large number of subscribers, even into 2006. By 2007, however, the introduction of the faster HSDPA platform was making these services more attractive and the 3G market had received a real boost as a result. This report examines the South Korean 3G market. This report also explores mobile voice and data services in South Korea, such as wireless Internet, SMS, MMS and PTT, as well as a range of mobile applications.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Third Generation (3G) mobile in South Korea
  
  • 2.1 Market overview
    
  • 2.2 CDMA2000
    
    • 2.2.1 Licences
      
    • 2.2.2 CDMA2000 1x
      
    • 2.2.3 CDMA2000 1x EV-DO
      
    • 2.2.4 CDMA2000 1x EV-DV
      
  • 2.3 Wideband CDMA (WCDMA)
    
    • 2.3.1 High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 3.5G mobile in South Korea
      
    • 2.3.2 High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) 3.5G mobile in South Korea
      
  • 2.4 TD-SCDMA
    
• 3. Fourth Generation (4G) mobile in South Korea
  
• 4. Mobile voice services
  
  • 4.1 Market overview
    
  • 4.2 Satellite mobile
    
• 5. Mobile data services
  
  • 5.1 Market overview
    
  • 5.2 Mobile Internet
    
    • 5.2.1 Wireless Broadband (WiBro)
      
    • 5.2.2 2004 NIDA mobile Internet usage survey
      
    • 5.2.3 Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI)
      
    • 5.2.4 WINC services
      
    • 5.2.5 WiMAX Service Conformance Verification Centre (SCVC)
      
  • 5.3 Short message service (SMS)
    
  • 5.4 Multimedia messaging service (MMS)
    
  • 5.5 Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
    
  • 5.6 Push-to-Talk (PTT)
    
  • 5.7 Mobile TV broadcasting / Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB)
    
    • 5.7.1 Satellite DMB (S-DMB)
      
    • 5.7.2 Terrestrial DMB (T-DMB)
      
    • 5.7.3 M-entertainment for mobile TV
      
    • 5.7.4 M-recording for mobile TV
      
  • 5.8 Mobile Video-on-Demand (mobile VoD)
    
• 6. Mobile content and applications
  
  • 6.1 Overview
    
  • 6.2 Video calls
    
  • 6.3 Position location system / Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
    
  • 6.4 Automobile telematics
    
  • 6.5 M-commerce / m-payment
    
  • 6.6 Mobile banking (m-banking)
    
  • 6.7 Mobile government (m-government)
    
  • 6.8 M-magazines
    
  • 6.9 M-Big Macs
    
  • 6.10 M- Movies
    
  • 6.11 Remote home monitoring
    
  • 6.12 Multi-lingual service
    
• 7. Related reports