SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, announced Friday that it will introduce a new 5GX Baseball Streaming Service using the over-the-top (OTT) service platform Wavve. The new 5GX service offers multiple points of view and allows users to watch a game from a maximum of 12 different [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday its esports joint venture (JV) with a U.S. entertainment giant has secured a sponsorship from global automotive giant BMW Group. T1 Entertainment & Sports (T1), a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor LLC, will be sponsored by [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. South Korea’s top mobile phone operator, announced on Sunday that it will hold a shareholder’s meeting online on March 26 due to the coronavirus spreading worldwide. The decision comes as the company seeks to bolster its shareholder-friendly management by helping shareholders to participate in the meeting [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Sunday it will establish a joint venture with major telecommunication firms from Singapore and Thailand to better develop gaming and esports services for the Southeast Asian market. SK Telecom said it has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (Singtel) and [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Sunday it has formed an international alliance with nine telecommunication firms to develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies and services. SK Telecom said Telecom Edge Cloud TF was established with nine other companies at a GSMA meeting in London [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday it has joined hands with Deutsche Telekom AG on 5G radio frequency (RF) repeater solutions. SK Telecom said it will collaborate with Deutsche Telekom to install Korean technology-based 5G RF repeaters in major German cities in the second quarter [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile phone operator, said Friday its net income plunged 72.5 percent last year from a year earlier due to reduced equity gains from its chip-making affiliate. In a regulatory filing, SK Telecom reported a net income of 861.9 billion won (US$725.9 million) last year, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Monday it plans to launch a 5G stand-alone service in the first half of the year after a test on its commercial 5G network was successful. Its stand-alone 5G data call using the company’s multi-vendor commercial 5G network in Busan [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it aims to expand cooperation with Microsoft Corp. on console games. SKT said it plans to support the development of games for Xbox, a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft, by boosting investment and marketing activities. To initiate [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –- SK Telecom Co. (SKT), South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has formed an international task force with five Asian telecommunication firms to develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies and services. Led by SKT, Global MEC TF will be comprised of Hong Kong’s PCCW Global Ltd. and [...]