Seoul is just starting to roll out Wibro, which stands for wireless
broadband.
Imagine a city enmeshed in a veil of super-powerful wireless
hotspots, each beaming out the internet at broadband speed to
everyone in the city, wherever they may be.
That is Korea Telecom's vision for the South Korean capital, and they
saw the launch of Wibro this summer as a significant step towards
that goal.
Local residents are given a hands-on demo of the virtues of Wibro's
impressive capabilities, happily browsing and watching streams of
last night's football at the respectable broadband speeds of several
megabits a second, all while being chauffeured around the city.
Unfortunately, out in the real world Koreans cannot actually use
Wibro on their phones because no-one has figured out how to cram in
the bulky and power-hungry Wibro chipsets, and make what is
essentially a data service work alongside voice calls.
Technical gremlins mean the connection keeps dropping when users move
between Wibro base stations, and it is only available in five
districts of Seoul.
Wibro may have arrived in this world-beating mobile metropolis, but
it is just that little bit too early.
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NEWS: Wibro in South Korea 
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