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Reports that fiber-optic cables in North Korea and South Korea were interconnected in July 2005, marking the first time that telecommunications networks between the two countries have been joined.

This article reports that the government of South Korea allocated spectrum in the 2.3-GHz band for a new breed of wireless Internet service called WiBro that is expected to deliver 1Mbit/second connections to mobile devices. WiBro, short for wireless broadband, is similar to WiMax, another emerging wireless broadband technology. Both are part of the IEEE 802.16 family of wireless standards. But South Korea's homegrown WiBro technology can work with devices, such as laptops and handhelds, that are traveling at up to 70 kilometers per hour. INSET: Briefly Noted.