SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, ranks No. 1 in terms of download speed of 5G networks, an industry report showed Friday. According to global mobile industry tracker Opensignal, the average download speed using SK Telecom’s 5G network was recorded at 469.6 megabits per second (Mbps), 2.55 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An urban air mobility (UAM) consortium led by SK Telecom Co. and Hanwha Systems Co. said Wednesday it has partnered with the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province to launch an air taxi pilot program on South Korea’s southern resort island. The K-UAM Dream Team Consortium, comprising the two companies and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday that its second-quarter net profit dropped 67.6 percent from a year earlier due mainly to last year’s spinoff of its semiconductor businesses. The company logged a net profit of 258.1 billion won (US$197.7 million) on a consolidated basis in [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Wednesday it was in talks with major overseas telecom operators to start rolling out its metaverse platform ifland in North America, Europe and other regions later this year. The announcement was made a day ahead of the one year anniversary [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday that it will launch a program with its chipmaking affiliate SK hynix Inc. to share their practical knowledge and know-how in the areas of semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) with local universities. The two companies will establish an online [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Tuesday it had opened the Teach-driven Entertainment for Asian Movement (TEAM) Studio at the 2nd Techno Valley, a startup complex near Seoul. The TEAM Studio is a visual effects (VFX)-based media content studio with a floor space of about 3,050 [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will open an online dance studio on its metaverse platform ifland in collaboration with dance studio/management agency 1MILLION Dance Studio. “One Million Land” is the second achievement of the metaverse culture project that SK Telecom has been carrying [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. on Monday released the Android open beta version of A., an artificial intelligence (AI) service that grows through dialogue with users. On behalf of users, A. takes care of cumbersome tasks such as schedule management, phone calls and text messages that users [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with domestic robotics platform specialist INTEGRIT to develop an ‘open-type robotics data platform.’ As a way to strengthen connectivity between different intelligent robots, the company plans to develop a platform that can [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit dropped 61.5 percent from a year earlier due mainly to the exclusion of equity gains from chipmaker SK hynix Inc., which was handed over to a spinoff investment company last year. The company said in [...]