SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, said Wednesday it will join hands with Perplexity, a U.S. artificial intelligence startup, in a bid to transform the global search engine market. In a joint press conference in Seoul, SK Telecom and Perplexity outlined their vision to co-lead the AI [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, a leading South Korean telecommunications company, announced on August 26 that it will provide a ‘passkey’ system to businesses as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, enabling login and user authentication without passwords. Passkey is a global standard technology that allows authentication and login through public key [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) data center using Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPU) in December. SK Telecom will join hands with U.S. GPU cloud provider Lambda to transform its existing data center in Seoul into an AI [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has launched its artificial intelligence-based veterinary care assistance service X Caliber in Southeast Asia. The mobile carrier signed a deal with local companies to supply X Caliber in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, according to the Korean company. X Caliber is an AI-based veterinary [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom, a leading South Korean telecommunications company, is set to introduce its artificial intelligence-based veterinary diagnostic aid service, X Caliber, to the North American market, following successful launches in Australia and Indonesia. On July 15, SK Telecom announced that it had signed a distribution agreement with Nuon and Nikki, [...]
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 [...]