SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s major mobile carrier, said Monday it will join hands with Singapore’s leading telecommunications company, Singtel, to improve their next-generation network technologies as part of efforts to take the helm of the global telco market. Under the memorandum of understanding, SK Telecom and Singtel will [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., a leading South Korean mobile carrier, said Thursday it will invest US$10 million in U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity to cooperate on AI search services. Perplexity also plans to invest in Global AI Platform Co., an AI service developing arm of SK Telecom in Silicon [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it is hosting a regular meeting of the O-RAN Alliance, a global community of mobile operators for open radio access network (RAN), this week for the first time in South Korea to discuss communications network technologies. The meeting kicked off Monday for a five-day [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom announced on June 9 that it will hold a lucky draw for 10,000 highly sought-after “gold numbers,” providing customers with the opportunity to own unique and meaningful phone numbers. Gold numbers refer to phone numbers with specific patterns, such as repetitive digits (e.g., 1111, 2200, 3000), numbers where [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As the growth of budget mobile carriers persists in South Korea, SK Telecom, the nation’s largest mobile operator, has continued to lose overall market share. However, a new report shows the company still commands a significant portion of 5G subscriptions. According to a report evaluating the competitiveness of South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it has officially launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-based veterinary care assistance service X Caliber in Australia and Indonesia. It marks the first official launch of X Caliber outside of South Korea, SK Telecom said, adding the company will work [...]
The partnership expands the availability of Swift’s precise positioning solutions in Korea and empowers SK Telecom to sell those solutions as part of its AI / IoT portfolio. SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Swift Navigation (“Swift”), a market leader in precise positioning technologies for automotive, IoT, and mobile applications today announced its [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom and Naver have emerged as the top artificial intelligence companies in South Korea, according to a survey of people from the MZ generation (those born between 1980 and the early 2000s) by the job platform Jobplanet. The survey of 947 MZ generation respondents revealed Samsung Electronics, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will release a large language model (LLM) tailored to the needs of telecommunications companies in June. The telco-specific LLM was fine-tuned on SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence model, A.X, and various AI models developed by global big techs, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant ‘A.’ (pronounced A Dot) will now provide crowding information for 37 popular cherry blossom viewing locations across the country. Through the A. application, users can access anticipated crowd levels by day and time slot, real-time congestion updates, recent [...]