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More than seven million Koreans have signed up for WCDMA mobile phone services. WCDMA, which stands for wideband code division multiple access, is a third-generation mobile standard that is widely used in Europe.
KTF said Thursday that more than four million people had subscribed to its Show WCDMA service as of Wednesday.
It took KTF more than four months to woo one million subscribers after it launched the service in March last year, but it took only two months to increase the number from three million to four million.
Some 3.3 million people have subscribed to SK Telecom’s competing T Live service, meaning a total of 7.3 million Koreans now use WCDMA services.
People in their teens and 20s account for the largest proportion of WCDMA subscribers, who spend 20 percent more for communications than users of the earlier U.S.-style code division multiple access services (CDMA).
Service providers expect the number of people using WCDMA to jump to over 15 million by late this year.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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