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Samsung Electronics will start its first commercial service of WiBro, a next-generation mobile communication service, in 6 major cities in the USA including New York, Washington, and Baltimore, starting April of next year.

As WiBro,which was first commercialized in Korea, makes its debut in the USA, Korea can use that in the process of standardizing the next-generation mobile technology.

Samsung said in this year's 4G forum that WiBro will bring the above mentioned-opportunity for Samsung. Choi Ji-sung, president of Samsung Electronics Information-telecommunication said that Samsung will expand its service to more foreign countries like Japan and England. Furthermore,Samsung will increase its investment in equipment related to WiBro,thus expecting the total revenue of the related network service to reach US$100 million.

Now 9 service providers from 7 countries are pursuing the commercial service of WiBro in Europe, South America and Asia.

President Choi added that "WiBro will be new business for Samsung and will play a role of producing new chance to succeeding in the miracle of Korean information and communication." He also emphasized that the business in USA will take root in the soil and become the world standard in mobile technology.

Samsung will put more money into research and development to occupy the standardization race. To this end,it plans to launch a new R&D center in Poland.

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