SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Following in the footsteps of SKT and LG Uplus, KT is freeing its Wi-Fi access points to the public, becoming the last of the three major South Korean mobile network providers to join the government’s effort to create a nationwide free Wi-Fi zone. KT’s latest move to join its [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The newly elected Moon Jae-in administration has reaffirmed its stance on cutting mobile phone bills for the socially marginalized in South Korea. In a business meeting with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) held today, Lee Gae-ho from the advisory committee for government planning said reducing [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is allegedly in a dispute with SK Broadband over its share of data traffic costs, after the South Korean internet provider rebuffed the social networking giant’s request to provide the free use of a cache server, which helps to speed up access to data. After sitting together at the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean communications giant SK Telecom reported yesterday that it has sold more than 100,000 units of its Nugu smart voice-enabled wireless speaker since its release seven months ago, with the number of conversations between Nugu users and the AI assistant amounting to over one hundred million. Since it [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities and the nation’s three mobile carriers launched a collaboration Thursday to monitor and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Under an agreement between the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) and SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp., the authorities will [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (SKT), Korea’s leading network operator, launched a nationwide Internet of Things network Monday that uses its LoRa (long-range) network exclusive to IoT communications. This is the first time for a country to establish an IoT-exclusive nationwide network with a single control center. With the new system, a wide [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom’s secret project has finally been revealed. The Korean telecommunications giant worked with Guy Hoffman from Cornell University, a world-renowned robot scholar, to develop an AI smart home robot called Vyo. The project was made public via an international academic journal published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The three major telecommunications companies clashing over SK Telecom’s purchase of CJ Hellovision are once again butting heads as they have different interpretations of the Broadcast Market Competition Assessment issued by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). KT and LGU+ were concerned that the influence SK Telecom is casting [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced Thursday it would spend 1 trillion won (US$840 million) by 2020 to boost the artificial intelligence industry. It also plans to support the civilian-led establishment of a high-profile research center tasked with serving as a “pivot” of the nation’s research and development in the field. [...]
SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) –SK Telecom, the No.1 mobile network operator in Korea, is modifying internal policies after it was reported that the company was lowering its clients’ credit ratings by reporting those who didn’t pay their bills to credit rating agencies as defaulters. Unlike SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ don’t report clients as [...]