[So what's the catch? The bids must be for cdma2000 not W-CDMA.]

by Son Jun-a, Seoul -- "Two South Korean telecom firms passed over in a recent auction for licences to provide 3G mobile service may be offered incentives to rebid, the Ministry of Information and Communication said on Wednesday.

"The catch is that they must submit bids using the cdma2000 standard for the service, not the W-CDMA format that Korea Telecom and SK Telecom have been selected to use.

"The government will consider providing incentives to encourage them to rebid for the cdma2000 standard," a ministry spokesman told Reuters, referring to LG Telecom and Hanaro Telecom.

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