SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) - CJ Hellovision Co., South Korea’s top operator of cable channels and Internet TV content, said Friday it plans to hold a shareholder meeting later this month to approve a proposed merger plan. SK Telecom Co., the country’s top mobile operator, agreed to buy CJ Hellovision in November of last year, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it would overcome its limits by broadening its horizons, as company executives decided that they would not be able to achieve meaningful growth in telecommunications this year. Company officials emphasized that the company will expand its media division and develop new business models to be reborn [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it joined the Open Compute Project (OCP), a community-led initiative for open source hardware and data center design. SK Telecom is committed to play a pivotal role in the newly created OCP Telco Project by making collaborative efforts with other global leading [...]
SEOUL, Jan.18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it will start accepting reservations for its new private-label smartphone called Sol, which will be released on January 22. The phone will sell for as little as 19,800 won. Sol is a private-label product of SK Telecom, and is manufactured by China’s TCL Alcatel. It is [...]
SEOUL, Dec.17 (Korea Bizwire) – To boost its competitive edge, SK Telecom is opening a media department, and has assigned Lee In-chan, the head of SK Broadband to take charge of the new business unit. To strengthen the platform business as a future growth engine, SK Telecom rearranged the structure of its divisions and changed [...]
SEOUL, Dec.16 (Korea Bizwire) – Telecommunications companies locked in fierce competition are poaching manpower from their competitors to increase sales. Nam Sang-il (46), Manager of Marketing Communication at SK Telecom, came from Cheil Worldwide, the largest PR firm in Korea. He was previously in charge of advertisements for KT, and knows the KT’s marketing strategies [...]
SEOUL, Dec.7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced that it will be launching a special plan for soldiers called ‘Thank you for protecting us’. Any soldier who signs up for the plan can enjoy unlimited calls and data for 2,000 won a day when they are on leave. In addition, 1,000 points, representing half of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday its exclusive LUNA smartphone is expectedto post 150,000 sales by the end of this month, amid the rising demand for budget handsets here. The budget smartphone, which made its debut in September, was sold out three weeks after its launch. Launched by TG&Co., the LUNAwas manufactured by Foxconn, which is well-known as a key manufacturer of Apple products. [...]
SEOUL, Nov.30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Korean mobile subscribers in October reached a new high since the activation of the Mobile Device Distribution Improvement Act in 2014, thanks to the iPhone 6s. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the number of mobile subscribers last month was 2,409,200. This was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has reduced its spending on advertisements through September this year, data showed Thursday, in line with its efforts to recoup losses from a government-led policy aimed at lowering cell phone users’ bills. The mobile carrier spent 132.2 billion won (US$116 [...]