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On August 29-31, the ITU-R WP8F Conference will be held at the Seoul Grand Hyatt Hotel to discuss the standardization of WiBro Mobile WiMAX's IMT-2000. This special conference will be hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) and nearly 200 participants will be at the conference, mostly ITU country representatives.
ITU-R WP8F is the board that specifically deals with the topic of IMT-2000 standard selection. This conference is a special meeting because ITU-T WP8F, which is mostly in charge of IMT-2000 and beyond, arranged this extra conference to specifically discuss WiBro's IMT-2000 standardization. The MIC sought the importance and the effect of this meeting to lead to standardization, thus gave final support to hold a conference in Korea.
New Minister Yoo Young-hwan, the chairman of Blust WP8F, and the chairman of Nikolich IEEE 802 will be at the opening ceremony, and Minister Yoo young-hwan is scheduled to give a welcome message to state his high expectation on SP8F's significant role on next generation mobile communication services like 4G.
The fierce debate is expected to discuss if WiBro would satisfy IMT-2000's minimal requirements for qualification. TTA will address a presentation based on the top WiBro technology of the country that was studied and applied by ETRI, Samsung Electronics, and KT. With the conference, KT and Samsung Electronics will run 2 WiBro testing buses around the central city area, having Namsan as part of the course. The direct experience opportunity will be given to attendees that will give a positive influence to IMT-2000 to be selected as a standard. The good news from Radio Assembly will play a vital role for domestic companies to be WiBro Pioneers in foreign markets and the MIC is giving all it has to make it happen.
