SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday its net income rose more than 40 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier on the back of robust growth in its media business. The telecom operator’s net income stood at 395.7 billion won (US$350.5 million) in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has started testing an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can detect dementia by listening to patients’ speech. The carrier said it partnered with Seoul National University College of Medicine last year to develop the program to allow early [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced Thursday the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) voicebot for customer service. The mobile carrier said that the voicebot comes with voice recognition, language comprehension and voice synthesis capabilities to understand and analyze complex sentences spoken by customers. Customers can now skip the automatic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless provider, said Tuesday it will open a new flagship store by partnering with Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The new store, named T Factory, in the trendy neighborhood of Hongik University in western Seoul, will open on Oct. 31, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it succeeded in recycling radomes, plastic communications antenna enclosures, for the first time in the industry. This milestone was achieved in collaboration with High Gain Antenna Co., a domestic antenna-producing firm. The recycled radome acquired GR (Good Recycled Product) certification from the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An augmented reality (AR) navigation service will be introduced at one of the largest department stores in the country. On Monday, South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. signed an agreement with Shinsegae Inc., Shinsegae Property and MAXST to jointly introduce 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC)-based AR content [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it partnered with Hong Kong’s top telecommunications firm PCCW Group to release its 5G mixed reality content there. The South Korean carrier said it will work with PCCW Group to provide its augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Friday it will spin off its mobility platform business into a separate entity as it partners with U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. in a move to strengthen its focus in the connected mobility sector. The business — tentatively called [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will develop smart ports using 5G network services by partnering with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Busan Port Terminal Corp. Under the memorandum of understanding signed between the three parties, they will develop a test [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered phone calling application, as it seeks to bolster its presence in AI technology. The mobile carrier said it integrated its NUGU AI platform, currently used in smart home devices, with its T Phone [...]