Tuesday, August 30, 2005

WiBro and the APEC summit

The Korea Times reports that "South Korea looks to surprise the world with its homegrown wireless broadband service,called WiBro,during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November in Pusan.The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) that heads the WiBro initiative plans to hand over hundreds of WiBro terminals to high-profile politicians and businessmen participating in APEC."Political leaders and corporate big shots will have the chance to experience Korea's next-generation technologies via WiBro.They will be able to connect to the Internet on the road,MIC director Park Hyoung-min said.WiBro,formerly known as the 2.3-gigahertz portable Internet,enables people on the go to remain hooked up to the Web at the data transmission speed of 2 megabits per second (Mbps)".Further,"Samsung proved WiBro can reach up to 2 Mbps inside a car moving at 120 kilometers per hour

[WiBro for APEC summit]

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