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Thirty three companies, including Hanaro Telecom, SBS, and LG Electronics, will participate in the consortium.
The consortium plans to offer the pilot service in the metropolitan areas, as well as Busan and Daejeon, by April of next year.
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Commemorative photo of `Consortium for Digital Home Pilot Service`
SK Telecom announced that the company has formed a consortium with 33 companies for a ’Digital Home Pilot Service’ sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Communication. The formation ceremony was held on November 19th in the SK Telecom Head Office.
The participants in the consortium are: Hanaro Telecom, SBS (Broadcasting Company), LG Electronics, SK Telecom, Daewoo Engineering and Construction, Daewoo Electronics, Hana Bank, Ahansan Hospital, Nuri Telecom, BIT Computer, Techno Village, SK Communications, Daum Communications (content provider), and 20 other companies.
It has been tentatively named the ’SKT Digital Home Consortium’, and the consortium will submit the proposal for participation in the Digital Home Pilot Service to the National Computer Agency, on the 28th of November. The consortium plans to launch the pilot service by April of 2004 if it has acquired the pilot service business license by that time.
In this regard, the consortium revealed that it has selected as its pilot service area (4 metropolitan areas (Bangbae, Kwanak, Yangcheon, and Boondang), as well as Busan (Haewoondae), and Daejeon (Dunsan). It plans to offer the service to a total of 500 households (300 households in metropolitan areas, 100 households in Busan, and 100 households in Daejeon).
Jong Reol Seo, head of SK Telecom’s Digital Home Task Force Team said, "This consortium will concentrate on creating added value and new demand from new industries, by establishing new industrialization strategies, and developing core technology related to the ’Digital Home Service’. ’The service will be connected with the Mobile Internet in the future, thereby playing a pivotal role in leading us into the ubiquitous era’, he added.
The participants in the consortium are: Hanaro Telecom, SBS (Broadcasting Company), LG Electronics, SK Telecom, Daewoo Engineering and Construction, Daewoo Electronics, Hana Bank, Ahansan Hospital, Nuri Telecom, BIT Computer, Techno Village, SK Communications, Daum Communications (content provider), and 20 other companies.
It has been tentatively named the ’SKT Digital Home Consortium’, and the consortium will submit the proposal for participation in the Digital Home Pilot Service to the National Computer Agency, on the 28th of November. The consortium plans to launch the pilot service by April of 2004 if it has acquired the pilot service business license by that time.
In this regard, the consortium revealed that it has selected as its pilot service area (4 metropolitan areas (Bangbae, Kwanak, Yangcheon, and Boondang), as well as Busan (Haewoondae), and Daejeon (Dunsan). It plans to offer the service to a total of 500 households (300 households in metropolitan areas, 100 households in Busan, and 100 households in Daejeon).
Jong Reol Seo, head of SK Telecom’s Digital Home Task Force Team said, "This consortium will concentrate on creating added value and new demand from new industries, by establishing new industrialization strategies, and developing core technology related to the ’Digital Home Service’. ’The service will be connected with the Mobile Internet in the future, thereby playing a pivotal role in leading us into the ubiquitous era’, he added.