SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Friday that its wholly owned fixed broadband subsidiary agreed to merge with No. 2 cable TV operator t-broad in a deal worth 4.7 trillion won (US$4.1 billion), paving the way for the expansion of the telecom firm’s media business. SK [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fixed-line operator SK Broadband Inc. announced on Thursday that it has released INSIDE, the nation’s first artificial intelligence-based video-on-demand (VOD) service on B tv, an IPTV service provided the company. INSIDE uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze and learn numerous videos to deduce information on the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — If the rise of global content streaming services like YouTube and Netflix have taught any lessons to those in the Korean media industry, one thing is for sure: You have to become big to survive. An explosive growth in demand for over-the-top (OTT) content in the world’s most-connected country [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom, South Korea’s No. 1 mobile operator said Thursday that it will team up with the country’s three terrestrial broadcasters to set up a local online video contents service by June. Park Jung-ho, the president of the telecommunication company, said after signing a memorandum of understanding with the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Broadband’s maintenance arm, Home & Service, overlooking the installation and repair duties of SK’s Internet and IPTV services, said that it was initiating a work strike. The company’s union held a press conference yesterday in front of the company’s main office in Jongno, Seoul to reveal plans to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s IT firm SK Broadband Inc. said Monday it has joined forces with popular chain Domino’s Pizza to allow users to track locations of orders using Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology. SK Broadband said the delivery drivers of Domino’s will be given a device that connects to the ordering systems [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The row between South Korean internet provider SK Broadband and social networking giant Facebook continues following reports of connection issues for Facebook users on SK Broadband connections. With the country witnessing for the first time a clash between a foreign content provider and a telecom network over shared broadband network [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is allegedly in a dispute with SK Broadband over its share of data traffic costs, after the South Korean internet provider rebuffed the social networking giant’s request to provide the free use of a cache server, which helps to speed up access to data. After sitting together at the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Though the South Korean government quashed SK Telecom’s attempt to take over CJ HelloVision, one of Korea’s leading telecommunications companies is still stepping up to shift its strategy to a ‘digital platform’. SK Telecom had proposed acquiring the nation’s largest cable TV operator, CJ HelloVision, and then merge it with [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare joint publicity stunt, South Korea’s two smaller mobile carriers placed an ad in 29 major newspapers late last month to denounce industry leader SK Telecom Co.‘s push to buy the country’s top cable TV operator. “We request that SK Telecom give up on a harmful acquisition [...]