3G Numbers For Korea
Koreans continue to adopt 3G services at a fairly rapid clip. A new report is claiming that 30 million of the 34 million mobile phone customers in Korea now are on 3G networks. Of course, the majority of those are on 1x networks, which you could argue are really 2.5G (the article admits that not everyone agress this is 3G -- something most reporters gloss over). Still, if you're looking at true 3G, EV-DO (or even the handful of WCDMA) customers, there are 7.7 million users, which is nothing to sneeze at. And all of this happened in just a few years. The article claims the first 1x network launched in 2001, which is a little off, since SK Telecom got the ball rolling in October 2000, but that's still less than four years. The first EV-Do network (again, SK Telecom) launched in January of 2002.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Filed Under: 3g
