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KT today announced a strategic partnership agreement in Wave-2
Mobile WiMAX with Amicus Wireless Technology, an innovative fabless
semiconductor start-up company focused on chipsets optimized for
mobile stations. KT is a leader in advanced wireless technology and
has launched commercial Mobile WiMAX deployments under the WiBro
service offering. Wave-2 Mobile WiMAX builds upon the strengths of
current WiBro services by adding intelligent antenna support such as
MIMO and Beamforming. These advanced antenna technologies will
significantly improve the already outstanding capabilities of WiBro
to make it the world’s best performing mobile data service. Dr.
Won-Pyo Hong, Executive Vice President of KT, said, "We are pleased
to be partnering with the outstanding team at Amicus in this next
step in the evolution of WiBro. Amicus’ strengths in building
handset optimized chipsets for Wave-2 Mobile WiMAX will enable KT to
bring even higher performance wireless networking to our
subscribers.” The Amicus/KT partnership developments will focus on
the AWT2000 chipset for Wave- 2 Mobile WiMAX mobile devices.
Handsets and other mobile terminals enabled with the AWT2000 are
expected to deliver the best power/performance characteristics of
any carrier-class wireless data service. As a part of this strategic
relationship, KT will also be making an investment in Amicus. Dr.
Jin Lee, President and CEO of Amicus, commented, "We are honored and
excited to be partnering with KT, the worldwide industry leader in
deploying Mobile WiMAX. We look forward to working with
manufacturers and carriers around the world to enable the growth of
the Wave-2 Mobile WiMAX." Amicus Wireless Technology is a privately
held company completely focused on building and delivering the
world’s best handset centric Wave-2 Mobile WiMAX chipsets. Amicus is
based in Sunnyvale, CA and founded by technical and business leaders
from the WiFi industry. |
