SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Pantech, Korea’s third-largest mobile handset manufacturer after Samsung and LG, petitioned to the President following its appeals to three mobile telecom service operators for help. The Council of Pantech’s Partner Companies said on August 5 in a statement addressed to President Park Geun-hye, “We implore you to consider our predicament. Without [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom plans to launch an ultra-mini wireless pico projector for smartphones. It is a follow-up model to the Smart Beam released in September 2012. With Albert and Atti, the smart robots, as well as the SmartCoin, it remains to be seen how well the new projector will fare [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that the company, together with Ericsson, the world-renowned telecommunications technology and service provider, successfully demonstrated the Elastic Cell technology on July 21. The technology, demonstrated for the first time in the world, is expected to become a key enabler for 5G. Elastic [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A smartphone application designed exclusively for teenagers and their parents has been rolled out to offer special features to protect the teens’ smartphone addiction and provide online counseling services. On July 15, SK Telecom, largest mobile carrier in Korea, introduced the teenage protection app “T Teenager Safe Pack 2” [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it opens ‘SK Telecom Healthcare R&D Center’ and ‘Shenzhen VISTA-SK Medical Center’ in Software Park in Shenzhen, China, signaling the company’s entry into the country’s healthcare market. Shenzhen VISTA-SK Medical Center, opened jointly by SK Telecom and VISTA, a Chinese medical corporation, [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 27 that it signed an agreement with Fishtree, the company specializing in educational content development, to work jointly in the smart learning business in the United States and the Middle East. Established in 2012 in Ireland, Fishtree is regarded as a leader in learning management [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 18 that it has launched a new service called “T Benefit” that notifies the user all benefits provided by the company, as well as the rate plan and additional services the user has signed up. T Benefit gathers all benefit information scattered around the company’s [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced, at a press conference held at its headquarter, that it commercialized 225Mbps LTE-Advanced, that is three times as fast as 75Mbps LTE, on the smartphones supporting the technology for the first time in the world. SK Telecom upgraded the existing LTE-Advanced which [...]
Seoul, Korea, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it concluded a contract to supply its Smart Appcessories* including Albert, a smart robot, and Smart Beam, a small-sized pico projector for all HDMI devices, to the Chinese market, signaling the company’s entry into the emerging ICT country. ※ Smart Appcessory: [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced that for the third year in a row, the company’s LTE small cell technology has been recognized at the Small Cell Industry Awards held in London, UK. This year, SK Telecom was awarded in the Innovation in Commercial Deployment category for its [...]