M2M: S. Korean Telco’s New Strategic Options

S. Korea’s major telecom service providers – SKT and KT – selected M2M as a new strategic business option for the next generation profit center:

SK Telecom formed a new business division, ‘IPE (Industry Productivity Enhancement)’ center, for the development of new M2M innovative technologies and providing M2M based B2B services. SKT aims $20 B market creation based on M2M services for conventional industry’s productivity enhancement.

S. Korea’s largest Telco, KT, also plan to provide M2M based B2B services using 3G mobile and Mobile WiMAX networks. The KT's M2M services are also targeting several newly developing green businesses such as smart grids and environment monitoring services.

In parallel with the private sector’s efforts, Korean government (KCC: Korean Communication Commission) are going to launch several trial projects by providing M2M test-bed platform for public-private collaborations. KCC also plan to assign a unique IP address for each individual M2M devices to form a ‘network of things’.


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Standards and IPR: Japan's National Strategy

iSIPc (ICT Standardization and Intellectual Property Promotion Center; www.isipc.org) is founded in July 31, 2008 to strengthen the international competitiveness of the IPR for international standards in the field of ICT (information communication technology) in Japan.

iSIPc is founded by 8 standardization organizations (TTC, CIAJ, TELEC, SCAT, JATE, ARIB, ITU-AJ, JCTEA) in Japan and is operated by industry-university-government cooperation.

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Obama's Stimulus Bill: A Strategy for Technology Investment

President Barack Obama signed his $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February 17, 2009(Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009).

Among the $787 billion stimulus bill, total of $102 billion will be dedicated for technology related investments such as broadband communications, smart grids, health care, energy, and R&D for sciences and engineering (Ref. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/STIMULUS_FINAL_0217.html).

Recent cover story, titled "Can Technology Save the Economy?", in June 2009 issue of Technology Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/business/22452/) expressed a concern over the stimulus bill's technology spending:

1. It offends conventional macroeconomic theory (short-term boon and labor intensive);
2. It could bring confusion for stimulus bill's immediate help for economy with technology's long-term role in creating economic growth.

A strategy for technology stimulus bill might be making roadmap for the detailed investment plan and time schedule for outcomes' role in creating economic growth. A proposal for short-term investment might be building the national knowledge infrastructure (integrated DB for science and engineering articles, intellectual properties, knowledge portals for innovation mining etc), which is labor intensive and short-term boon for long-term planning.


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TD LTE IPR: China’s National Strategy

TD LTE is the advanced version of TD-SCDMA, which is independently developed 3G standard by China. In parallel with the TD LTE products development by Huawei, ZTE, Datang, Qualcomm, and Sony Ericsson, FuTURE MOBILE COMMUNICATION FORUM (http://www.future-forum.org/) – an industry association supported by Chinese government (NDRC, MOST and MII) – formed the IPR working group in collaboration with Intellectual Property Affair Center of Ministry of Science and Technology.

FuTURE FORUM’s IPR working group will make in-depth research and discussion on TD-LTE and other B3G mobile communication technologies’ IPR-related issues.


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4G & Beyond 4G Mobile Innovation: National Strategy in S. Korea

"Korea Communications Committee" (KCC: http://eng.kcc.go.kr/user/ehpMain.do) announced a press release that the first priority for S. Korea's national strategy in the global wireless telecommunication innovation competitions is to develop integrated standardization of 4G mobile technology such as WiBro-Evolution, LTE-Advanced, and IMT-Advanced. KCC also set up a strategic support plan for Beyond IMT-Advanced essential technology development and IPR for the standard technology.

KCC's 4G & Beyond 4G Mobile Innovation plan is a part of S. Korea's strategic policy for next generation wireless telecommunication innovation, in which 1.5 billion US dollars will be invested until 2013.

As a part of the KCC's strategic efforts, an online site (http://www.spectrum.or.kr/) for supporting the implementation of flexible spectrum policy will be launched.


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Green IT Innovation: National Strategy in S. Korea

S. Korea's "Green Growth Committee"(http://www.greengrowth.go.kr/) said that the first priority for S. Korea's national strategy in the global greenIT innovation competitions is to develop greenIT technologies targeting the international standards from the start.

According to the green growth committee's strategic planning, the S. Korean government will invest 2 billion US dollars annually until 2012 for green technology research and development (R&D).

As a part of the the green growth committee's strategic efforts, a task force for the public-private collaborations will be launched for the development of international greenIT standards and their IPR (essential patents).


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