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Samsung Electronics Wins Contract with SK Telecom

January 20, 2004 by Jeff Shepard

SK Telecom Co. Ltd. has contracted Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) to provide next-generation data core network equipment for its CDMA network. The carrier has deployed the Samsung Mobile Access Gateway 400 (SMAG 400, which is Starent Networks Corp.'s ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway) as a Packet Data Serving Node.

The SMAG 400 (Starent ST16) has been deployed in SK Telecom's CDMA2000 1X and CDMA2000 1X EV-DO network. The product enables SK Telecom to provision data services at speeds up to 2.4Mbps. With the high-speed capabilities of the network, subscribers will have access to a wide variety of services, such as video messaging, video phone, video-on-demand, music-on-demand, MP3 downloads, mobile television, and many others. The SMAG400 has been deployed in the Seoul metro area. The network is now live, and the contract follows on the recent selection of Samsung/Starent to provide core data network equipment for SK Telecom's deployment of a new IMT-2000 W-CDMA network.