The two companies have formed a partnership to develop home-base stations, otherwise know as 'femtocells' conforming to the mobile WiMAX standard IEEE 802.16e-2005 and tis Korean variant, WiBro, which KT is now using to launch a commercial network in Korea. However, Korean carriers and manufacturers have global aspirations for the technology.

(femto is the SI prefix denoting 10-15 and next in the scale down from the more familiar micro, nano and pico. Should technology produce even smaller base stations, the SI system has three further prefixes available: atto, zepto and yocto.)

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