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 [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. is ready to work with various partners in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the CEO of South Korea’s top mobile carrier said Wednesday, as he urged other South Korean players to join hands to lead the advanced technology. SK Telecom CEO Park Jung-ho said [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 telecom company SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday signed a partnership with China-based electric vehicle (EV) maker Byton to develop an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system as South Korea’s leading mobile carrier taps deeper into the mobility sector. Under the deal signed at the Consumer Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., jointly with FLO, a music platform, plans to offer free music streaming service, including Christmas songs, to small business owners across the nation for a month, starting on Saturday. SK Telecom will pay all licensing fees for streaming based on the size and type of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading telecommunications operator, and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major shipbuilder, said Tuesday their 5G-powered remote control ship operation test was successful. A 3.3-meter model ship made by Samsung Heavy sailed successfully in the sea near the shipbuilder’s shipyard in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., a major telecommunication company in South Korea, said Monday it has joined hands with the country’s statistics agency to offer a mobile big data-based population mapping service. The service combines mobile data collected by SKT’s base stations nationwide and Statistics Korea’s data on population and households, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has launched a virtual reality (VR) zone in partnership with major IT companies at home and abroad to provide various content available on its 5G network. South Korea’s leading mobile carrier said users can create their own avatars in its VR space, Virtual [...]