#1. My little puppy feels lonely without me. I am worried about his welfare while I am taking a trip.

#2. My son just had his first birthday. I miss him so much. Every time I make a phone call, I ask about him. But it is not enough.

#3. I have a student working in my convenience store. I am worrying whether he is doing his job well. I cannot stay in the store all the time, so I feel uneasy.

Seoul, Korea, 10 May 2007 - SK Telecom (CEO Shin Bae Kim, www.sktelecom.com) recently announced the launching of the ‘VU Monitoring service’ that lets customers  monitor moving images from a remote distance through the use of their mobile phone’s WCDMA service. To this end, our customers should install a video camera in the places  they would like to monitor.

When installing a video camera in an Internet-enabled computer in house or office, its streaming video image can be transmitted to the customer’s mobile phone through our WCDMA service and network, on a real time basis. Any WCDMA service subscriber can use this service by pressing ##0565 and the “VU” button on their mobile phone.

The VU Monitoring service also lets customers send and receive voice messages as well as streaming video, from a remote distance. This lets customers have voice communication with a person who does not have a phone, while monitoring him or her in real time. In addition, when the customer calls the name of the puppy inside his house with a WCDMA-enabled mobile phone while monitoring the puppy inside the house from a far distance, the puppy can hear and react to the customer’s voice through a camera installed in the computer in the house.

Customers can use the service after subscribing to it through the T World homepage (www.tworld.co.kr) > 3G+ > VU Monitoring. The video call will be charged KRW30 per ten seconds, and no information use fee will be charged until August 10^th which is three months after the launching of the service. After three months, KRW3,000 per month will be charged as an information use fee.

“Customers are able to enjoy CCTV service at an affordable price through the VU Monitoring service. This service will greatly increase security in their home as well as in their office. SK Telecom will continue to research and develop a variety of new services that offer WCDMA streaming video and monitoring functions through a mobile phone, thereby allowing customers to enjoy customized streaming video services”, said Min Seok Kim, vice-president and head of SK Telecom’s Service Technology Research Center.