[Two winners predicted ouf of the four contenders vying for Korean IMT-2000 licensing.]

by Kim Min-hee -- "With less than a week left before the winners of IMT-2000 licenses are announced, brokerage firms predicted SK Telecom (SKT) and Korea Telecom (KT) are likely to come out victors while expressing substantial doubt over LG Telecom (LGT)'s bid to land a spot. "There are four contenders in the bid to become IMT-2000 or third generation mobile telecom service operators - consortiums led by SKT, KT, LGT and Hanaro Telecom.

"The first three are vying for maximum two licenses to deploy W-CDMA (wide-band code division multiple access) network, while Korea Imt-2000, led by Hanaro Telecom, is the sole candidate for one available, less popular CDMA (code division multiple access) network operator.

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