Sony Ericsson Expected to Enter South Korean Handset Market

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Sony Ericsson Expected to Enter South Korean Handset Market

6:50 am on December 28, 2006 | Category: Business, Mobile Devices, Cell Phones

The world’s fourth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, Sony Ericsson, intends to enter the highly competitive Korean handset market in late 2007, according the Asian country’s leading wireless carrier.

“Sony Ericsson is in talks with Korean mobile carriers about installing the Wi-Fi wireless Internet platform on its phones to be launched in Korea,” revealed a spokesman with SK Telecom Co, which hasn’t yet decided whether it will carry the phones.

The cell phones provided by Sony Ericsson would most likely be high-end, boasting compatibility with a 3.5G mobile data technology called HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access), the SK Telecom spokesman said.

Domestic handset manufacturers, Samsung and LG Electronics currently dominate the South Korean market, where about 40 million people out of a population of 48 million already carry at least one mobile phone.