SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, and Facebook Inc. will set up a start-up incubator in South Korea early next year to encourage people to launch start-ups for telecom equipment, company officials said Thursday. Details of the planned incubator, which will be established during the first [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom’s NUGU is a cylindrical-shaped speaker/lamp that is capable of providing various services including music recommendations and playback, smart home services (for smart homes and smart-compatible electronics), and other assistant services like weather information, alarm, and schedule notifications. According to industry sources, daily sales of NUGU have almost [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading telecommunications company, SK Telecom, showcased its IoT roaming network as the global standard for LoRa (low-power, long-range wide area network for IoT), during Tuesday’s All Member Meeting for the LoRa Alliance. In a nutshell, the roaming technology would allow IoT services to be operational in any country [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone companies and mobile carriers are targeting niche customers that are price-sensitive but seeking high-quality products. These lower-cost premium smartphones usually sell in the price range between 600,000 won ($540) and 700,000 won, roughly 300,000 won less than conventional premium smartphones such as the Galaxy Note 7 or LG’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom announced Wednesday the launch of Nuguna Corporation, a virtual company that will serve as a platform to gather various customer ideas for its latest AI service, “NUGU”. NUGU, announced on August 31, is based on voice recognition technology that allows users to control [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The current Korean market for smartphones may be dominated by the big three smartphone manufacturers – Samsung, Apple, and LG – and their latest premium products – the Galaxy Note 7, iPhone, and V20 – but other phone makers have been making inroads recently by targeting niche customers. KT, [...]
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that it has published ‘ATSCALE White Paper’ to suggest the direction for evolution of the next-generation telecommunications networks including the 5G network. In this white paper, SK Telecom describes in detail its ATSCALE vision and architecture, based on which it will realize [...]
Seoul, Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today held a press conference at its Seoul headquarters to introduce NUGU*, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) service based on voice recognition technology. The company has also shared plans to further develop its A.I. platform and services in cooperation with third party developers and customers. *The [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Though the South Korean government quashed SK Telecom’s attempt to take over CJ HelloVision, one of Korea’s leading telecommunications companies is still stepping up to shift its strategy to a ‘digital platform’. SK Telecom had proposed acquiring the nation’s largest cable TV operator, CJ HelloVision, and then merge it with [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Green Consumer Network (GCN) pointed out Thursday that Korea’s Big Three telecommunications companies – SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus – are racking up excessive retail profits by selling USIMs (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) via their own distribution networks. The GCN analyzed sales and pricing data for smartphone [...]