SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. has launched a new mobility service for persons with severe disabilities to help them enjoy safer and cheaper commutes to work. SK Telecom joined hands with the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities (KEAD), the city of Seongnam and mobility startup Modoo Shuttle on Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top telecom operator, is eyeing initial public offerings (IPO) for its digital service subsidiaries starting next year, analysts said Sunday, as the company seeks to realign its business structure. The move has been widely expected after the mobile carrier announced its IPO ambitions for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile network provider, said Wednesday it aims to commercialize its 5G network on the 28-gigahertz (GHz) band by the end of this year, targeting businesses with faster network speeds. Local telecom operators currently offer 5G on the 3.5-GHz band since commercializing the network [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday its partnership with Nano-X Imaging Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed startup, remains unchanged amid allegations that the digital X-ray startup is involved in fraud. Nanox, which aims to disrupt the medical imaging industry with its Nanox.ARC device, has been battered by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has released a mobile app-based DNA testing service in partnership with bio firm Macrogen Inc. and the mobile carrier’s joint venture Invites Healthcare Co., expanding its involvement in the digital health care sector. The subscription-based service, named care8 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., the top mobile operator in South Korea, said Monday it will offer a remote education service early next year for students stuck at home amid the pandemic. The service will be developed in partnership with the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education to be used by around [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it launched a cloud gaming service in partnership with Microsoft Corp., joining other telecom operators to compete for the growing local cloud gaming market. The mobile carrier’s 5GX Cloud Game service is powered by Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Tuesday it partnered with the state-run Korea Gas Safety Corp. to develop a gas facility safety system using quantum technology. The two will also work with the gas safety company Korea Plant Maintenance and the local optical sensor company QuantumSensing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus continues to rage on, mobile carriers are scrambling to launch so-called ‘untact’ O4O (online-for-offline) platforms. In July, South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. launched ‘T-world Friends’, a web page dedicated to logistics network management for affiliated stores struggling with a recent plunge in revenue. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Thursday it has joined hands with global partners for commercialization of the 5G virtual network. Under the partnership with Samsung Electronics Co., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and Intel Corp., SK Telecom will take part in the 5G network virtualization [...]