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In the Digital Age, everything moves at warp speed. This pace is why Pantech believes time is too precious a commodity to squander. While our competitors may assume that a working year encompasses 365 days, we strive to make a single day equal a working year, by constantly aiming, as a team that's a family, to produce better products, to perform further R&D and to provide outstanding customer service.

As a result, we've been able to grow by leaps and bounds to become what we are today: one of the world's leading companies in the telecommunications field.

However, we're not satisfied with merely staying in the status quo, and so, through a relentless, fanatical focus on R&D evolution, we will continue to stride boldly on the path leading to the future of the technlogy age.

  The Pantech Timeline ~ Evolution of An Enterprise
  • Obtain license for GSM mobile phone in China
  • Affiliated with SK Teletech Co.
  • Establish true global network
  • Inducement of capital investment and strategic alliance with Motorola
  • Launched the CDMA2000
  • Pantech Co. affiliated with Pantech & Curitel Communications, Inc.
  • Patented the core element of DC Prediction MPEG-4 Video Standard
  • ISO9001 Certified
  • Gimpo plant expansion
  • ISO14001-Certified
  • Received international certification for GSM mobile phones and began exports
  • TL9000-Certified
  • First launched the 0.33 Mega-pixel flash camera phone (PD-6000, PD-K600) in Korea
  • Dalian Daxian Pantech Communications Co. established in Dalian
  • Pantech & Curitel Communications, Inc. first publicly-traded on Korean Stock Exchange
  • Launched the world's first 1.3M pixel camera phone
  • Obtained three international patents for MPEG4 compression technology
  • Launched the world's first 2 Mega-pixel CCD camera mobile phone with 2x optical zoom
  • Developed the world's first 3M-pixel camera phone with in-house CMOS module
  • Launched the world's first fingerprint-recognition mobile phone
  • Initiated 'Curriors', a professional e-sports team
  • Signed a $1.6 billion (USD) contract with Audiovox for the export of 10 million handsets
  • Obtained license for CDMA mobile phone in China
  • Developed the world's first 'Zigbee' phone using the new short distance wireless technology
  • Introduced CCD-camera module to domestic market
  • Began production of CDMA mobile phones
  • GSM Mobile Phone development commences
  • Pantech Co. publicly traded on Korean Stock Exchange
  • Completed new factory in the Gimpo suburb of Seoul
  • Produced 1G PCS Mobile Phone
  • Pantech established
  • Pantech Research Center established
  • Began domestic sales and exports of Pantech pagers
  • Unique Two-Way Radio introduced in domestic and export consumer markets
  • Korea's first Text Messaging Pager introduced
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