SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it will launch Microsoft’s Xbox cloud game service here next month. South Korea will be the only Asian country for the xCloud service’s global launch across 22 countries on Sept. 15, according to SK Telecom. The game streaming service allows [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has partnered with the country’s top delivery operator Woowa Brothers Corp. to develop a robot delivery service using 5G technology. The two companies signed an agreement to introduce SK Telecom’s 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technology into Woowa [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, announced Tuesday that it will work with its affiliate SK Planet Co. and Hwashin Co. on an artificial intelligence (AI)-based Smart Factory Project. Hwashin is the country’s major chassis producer and primary supplier for Hyundai Motor Co. SK Telecom plans to [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it updated its services for hearing-impaired taxi drivers with new safety technology. The telecom operator partnered with local social venture Coactus Ltd. in 2018 to launch a taxi-hailing app for hearing-impaired drivers. SK Telecom said Coactus will directly employ the [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Visitors to Changdeok Palace of the Joseon Dynasty in central Seoul will be able to experience as it was in the past via augmented reality (AR), South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Monday. The carrier said it will digitally recreate the Joseon Dynasty’s royal Changdeokgung Palace [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading telecom operator SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to export its 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technology. The carrier signed an agreement to form a consortium with the Asia Pacific and South Korea units of HPE to provide the [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. will remodel its distribution system to meet so-called ‘untact’ demand. South Korea’s top mobile carrier by subscribers announced Sunday its Big 3 Distribution Innovation Plan that focuses on premium online-to-offline (O2O) services, stronger protection of customer data, and unmanned stores for the latter half of this [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday it will install earthquake sensors at its mobile network base stations across the country, a move that can help expand readiness against natural disasters. Earthquakes have become a matter of public concern in South Korea in recent years with 88 earthquakes [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier by subscribers, started to shut down its 2G services Monday, following receiving government approval last month to terminate its 25-year-old network. The telecom operator said it has begun switching off its 2G base stations in eight provinces and the central city [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of SK Telecom Co.’s termination of 2G service, the company’s 2G customers with mobile phone numbers starting with 011 or 017 lost a lawsuit for protection of their mobile phone numbers in a civil court of appeal. According to industry sources on Wednesday, the Seoul High Court ruled [...]