South Korea Unveils Mobile Technology Roadmap

The South Korean government wants the country to become a leader in mobile technologies by 2010, and has unveiled the M-1 (Mobile Number One) project. It will target five specific industry sectors, including: developing special zones for next-generation mobile communications technologies, development of a cheap and stable mobile environment, acquisition of technological competitiveness to lead in the global mobile technologies market, building a new environment to develop new mobile communications businesses and developing the market to allow stable growth in the local mobile industry.
The target is to “boost South Korean firms’ share of the global mobile equipment market to 50% and the high-end terminal market to 30%”.

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