By CNET Networks, 14 January 2003 10:55
NEWS By Chris Hwang Nokia yesterday announced it will shut its CDMA research and development centre in Seoul. According to a statement, the Finnish company is shutting down its CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) R&D centre in Seoul in order to focus on IMT2000 (W-CDMA) phones. In Korea, W-CDMA-based IMT2000 services are expected to be launched in June and October by two giant service providers, SKT and KTF, despite their earlier adoption of competing CDMA2000 technology. Nokia has not won significant market share against the big local mobile phone providers, such as LG and Samsung since it set up its CDMA business 19 months ago. The colour display mobile phone market in Korea is currently dominated by Samsung (55 per cent), LG (23.1 per cent) and US-based Motorola, although it is chasing the others with 7.3 per cent market share. Nokia said Nokia TMC, located in Masan, Korea, will continue to manufacture GSM phones. Chris Hwang writes for ZDNet Korea.
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