SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has succeeded in reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases using advanced telecommunications technology. The company announced on Tuesday that it had reduced the use of electricity by integrating and upgrading its 3G and LTE network equipment, and the reduction of greenhouse [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s app market ONE store has drawn attention as a possible alternative to Google’s Play store as local app developers worry about increasing costs over the U.S. tech giant’s decision to expand its 30 percent commission fee to all in-app digital goods purchases later this year. ONE store, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, announced Tuesday that it will join hands with the local unit of British banking giant Standard Chartered Bank to set up the first MyData Cloud system in the banking sector. MyData collects private credit information dispersed throughout various financial firms to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., the country’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it joined hands with its security subsidiary ADT Caps Co. and local video management solution company Innodep Inc. to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based video analysis services. Under an agreement, the three companies will develop such services to effectively manage [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s corporate watchdog said Wednesday it has approved a move by SK Telecom Co.’s mobility spinoff to launch a taxi-hailing joint venture with Uber Technologies Inc. T Map Mobility, wholly owned by SK Telecom, the country’s biggest mobile carrier, plans to set up a taxi-hailing joint venture with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it shifted to a net profit in the final quarter last year on the back of growing users on the 5G network and increased equity gains. Net income stood at 371 billion won (US$333 million) in the October-December period, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Monday it will release Facebook Inc.’s latest virtual reality (VR) device, the Oculus Quest 2, as the telecom operator seeks to expand its presence in the local VR market. The mobile carrier said it will offer the device in South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Thursday it has joined hands with local defense company Hanwha Systems Co., Korea Airports Corp. and the Korea Transport Institute to speed up development of urban air mobility (UAM) services. Last year, South Korea unveiled its plan to commercialize UAM [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has upgraded its mobile app-based DNA testing service in a bid to remain at the forefront of the personal customized healthcare market. The subscription-based service, named care8 DNA, was introduced by the company last year. SK Telecom said Monday that it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless provider, said Thursday it has partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) to launch the country’s first 5G edge cloud service. The business-targeted service, named SKT 5GX Edge, provides users ultra-low latency for data-intensive services by connecting to AWS Wavelength Zones installed [...]