
WiBro -- Analysing Korea's home grown BWA standard
San Francisco, CA and London, UK; visiongain, 15 July 2005 ----South Korea's wireless broadband technology, WiBro (formerly known as HPi), has been making headlines recently after US operator Sprint and Japan's KDDI announced they would launch pilot WiBro services in their respective countries by the end of 2005....
...WiBro is a high-speed wireless data access technology, designed for "nomadic" users who tend to remain at one particular location for some time. .... WiBro uses the 2.3GHz band, with an aim to achieve data transmission at 50Mbps (maximum) with smart antennas in 2006. Indeed, ETRI, Samsung and POS Data are currently upgrading the speed of WiBro from the current 30Mbps to 50Mbps by the end of 2005....more...