POSDATA and KT Strike a Deal to Deploy Mobile WiMAX Commercial Network

20 December 2007

Mobile WiMAX, currently being offered in the Seoul metropolitan area, will be expanded to Pohang, a thriving city of 500,000 people in the south of Korean peninsula.

POSDATA and KT have drawn up plans to establish a “Mobile WiMAX Town” in Pohang City, where the demand for Mobile WiMAX services is fairly high in all income classes due to a concentration of industrial, research, academic, and residential complexes. Both companies are planning to not only provide Internet access services but also develop a wide array of specialized Mobile WiMAX service models.

The two companies concluded an agreement regarding business cooperation at POSDATA headquarters. The event was attended by appropriate representatives including Mr. Yoo Byung-chang, CEO of POSDATA, and Mr. Pyo Hyun-myung, Senior Vice President of KT.

POSDATA will provide Mobile WiMAX base stations, ASN-gateways, network management systems, as well as terminals for service subscribers. The ASN-gateways will support WiMAX standard compatibility, and the base stations will be the latest models with Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 technologies such as the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) to increase the data processing capacity of Mobile WiMAX services. Commercial launching will be around Q3, 2008.

POSDATA also recently released a USB terminal that is connected to a notebook to receive Mobile WiMAX services and concluded a contract with KT on the supply of terminal, thereby creating an opportunity to fully establish itself as a total solution provider of Mobile WiMAX.

Mr. Shin Joon-il, Senior Vice President of POSDATA’s Mobile WiMAX Division, said, “POSDATA’s participation in this project to establish a Mobile WiMAX town is going to be a solid reference that will drive out global expansion of Mobile WiMAX business.”