“I hope the three neighboring countries of China, Japan, and Korea could get together to create a uniform standard for the mobile transportation card and other technologies such as smart energy, the Internet of Things, and future fusion techs so that the three nations can lead the world in these areas.”
“Once the mobile transportation card under a unified standard is launched in China, Japan, and Korea, about 900 million users of three companies, or one in four mobile users in the world, will benefit from the change.”
—Hwang Chang-gyu, KT chairman
KT Chairperson Hwang Chang-gyu(right) has proposed an idea of a unified mobile transport card for the users of China’s China Mobile and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. (image: KT)
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — KT has proposed an idea of a unified mobile transport card for the users of China’s China Mobile and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. Once this proposal is materialized, travelers moving back and forth within these countries won’t have to buy a new card every time they set foot on a new country.
KT’s chairman Hwang Chang-gyu attended a chairmen’s meeting in the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement held in West Lake in Hangzhou on November 21 and discussed ways to improve user convenience in the Northeast Asian communications market while increasing cooperation in the areas of smart energy, the Internet of Things, and other new services.
In the SCFA conference, CEOs and top executives of the companies from three countries were in attendance, including China Mobile chairman Xi Guohua and NTT DoCoMo president Kaoru Kato.
The Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement was created in 2011 among the three mobile communications service operators at the proposal of KT. The annual meeting discusses technical issues as well as roaming, app and contents, M2M, and partnership marketing. This is the fourth meeting in which the CEOs of the three firms gathered together.
By John Choi (johnchoi@koreabizwire.com)
