By Kim Tae-gyu
Staff Reporter

A total of 46 locally developed technologies on Internet protocol TV (IPTV) were selected as international standards. This is likely to help Korean firms preempt the lucrative Web-based TV markets.

The state-run Radio Research Laboratory announced Monday that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) accepted 46 IPTV-associated proposals of Korea at its fifth meeting late last month.

As a result, the number of the country's overall IPTV-related standards became 199, including ones approved at earlier four ITU focus group meetings.

Affiliated with the United Nations, ITU is the leading agency in charge of establishing world standards for information and telecom technologies.

``We proposed 52 standards and 46 of them were acknowledged by the ITU IPTV focus group and this increased our standards up to 199,'' said Kang Sung-chul, a director at the radio research lab.


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