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SOUTH KOREA PERMITS CHEAPER NON-WIFI HANDSETS ON THE MARKET.
SEOUL, April 2 Asia Pulse - South Korea said Sunday it has decided to ease a regulation that obliges local mobile phone makers to install a homegrown wireless Internet-mobilizing program in all their handsets, raising the possibility of cheaper handsets hitting the market.
Under current telecom regulations, all mobile phones sold here must have WiFi, a platform designed to activate wireless Internet.
The mandatory regulation was intended to help reduce costs and improve consumer convenience by enhancing compatibility through a single unified software.
However, the regulation has also spawned an outcry from consumer groups that it blocks the launch of cheaper handsets by obliging even mobile phones without Internet connectivity to carry the WiFi software.
On Friday, the Ministry of Information and Communication said it held a meeting and decided to allow mobile handsets with no Internet functions to give up on the Wi-Fi standard.
"However, Internet phones still have to carry WiFi," the ministry said in a statement.
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