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SK Telecom will develop artificial intelligence-based (AI) hospitality services for the Paradise Hotel Busan, the mobile carrier said Wednesday. The company hopes to use its AI technology to improve various hospitality services offered at the hotel, located…
Korea’s top navigation apps have released their projections on the best and worst times to travel from Seoul to the provinces for the Chuseok harvest holiday. The three-day Chuseok holiday starts on Sunday, but the government granted a substitute holiday on…
SK Telecom said Monday it commercialized a next-generation WiFi service that is four times faster than existing services at key areas with dense traffic, including COEX in southern Seoul. The new technology offers a maximum of 4.8 gigabits per second (Gbps)…
Two of Korea’s three major telecom carriers are presumed to have posted weaker earnings for the April-June period from a year earlier, industry watchers said Sunday, apparently on increased mobile user discounts and changed financial reporting standards.…
Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first mobile phone in Korea, which kick-started an industry that would redefine the country’s economy. Korea Mobile Telecommunications, which later changed its name to SK Telecom, launched the Motorola…
South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom has announced a US$449 million investment into a subsidiary’s e-commerce platform, 11Street Shopping Mall. In a decision yet to be approved by shareholders, SK will use the investment, sourced from the H&Q Korea private…
SK Telecom invested 10 billion won ($9.2 million) in mobile video content provider Make Us, the company said Monday. Local start-up Make Us creates video clips related to various categories including music, food, travel and beauty and distributes them through…
SK Telecom has partnered with Macquarie to fully acquire domestic security service firm ADT Caps for 1.276 trillion won ($1.18 billion), the South Korean mobile giant announced. SK Telecom will buy 55% stake in Siren Holdings Korea, the company that holds…
Construction work on Apple Korea’s first flagship store in Seoul is set to be completed just before Christmas. On a 1300sqm site in fashionable Sinsa-dong, the two-storey Apple Store will feature an exterior glass wall. “The construction work that started in…
SK Telecom has reported a 4.7% year-on-year increase in revenue for the third quarter to 4.44 trillion won ($3.99 billion), on the back of a solid performance across the operator’s core segments. Net profit surged 146.2% year-on-year to 793 billion won due to…
SK Telecom has announced the completion of a successful test run of a self-driving vehicle in public as part of its foray into the autonomous and connected vehicle segment. During the test run, the operator’s self-driving car traveled 26 kilometers in real…
SK Telecom has announced the launch of a new in-car virtual assistant combining its T Map mobile navigation app with its NUGU artificial intelligence platform. The T Map x NUGU AI-based navigation service enables drivers to use their voice to activate…
SK Telecom has developed and trialed a new 5G repeater as part of its preparations towards launching a commercial 5G network. The repeater has been applied to the operator’s 5G trial network near Gangnam Station in Seoul to provide denser coverage. It has…
SK Telecom more than doubled its net profit during the second quarter due to factors including a record performance at chipmaker SK Hynix. The operator reported a net income of 620.5 billion won ($555.06 million), up 113.2% year-on-year. Revenue meanwhile…
SK Telecom has developed a prototype of an ultra-compact quantum random number generator (QRNG) chip configured with entropy source and a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG). A QRNG generates true random numbers without any kind of pattern, meaning that…
SK Telecom, Samsung and Nokia have jointly conducted a 5G trial demonstration using the 3.5-GHz frequency band. The operator worked with Samsung to develop a 3.5-GHz 5G end-to-end network comprising a 5G virtualized core, virtualized RAN, distributed baseband…
