SKT, KT to present cutting-edge mobile technology at MWC

With the opening of the world’s premier cellular tech show just a 7 days absent, South Korea’s major telecommunications corporations which includes SK Telecom and KT Corp. are poised to showcase their potential systems.

Korea’s No. 1 cell carrier, SK Telecom, reported Sunday it will work an exhibition place at the annual Cellular Environment Congress in Barcelona, Spain, below the theme of “AI, the Wave of Innovation.” The enterprise will showcase its progressive upcoming technologies like synthetic intelligence, city air mobility and 6G support. It also plans to expand world partnerships there.

SKT, which is evolving into an AI business, will introduce a vast selection of AI products and services such as its hyperscale AI product A., AI chip Sapeon and AI locale services Litmus. A lifetime-scale urban air mobility simulator will enable site visitors to just about encounter modern upcoming mobility and the knowledge classes can be reserved via its integrated cell system Tmap.

SKT CEO Ryu Youthful-sang is scheduled to existing the company’s eyesight as an AI corporation and boost partnerships with world tech corporations in a large selection of enterprise parts this kind of as AI, metaverse and telecommunications.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won is thinking of attending the MWC for the initially time, according to organization officers. When market resources predicted that the SK chief will participate to guidance the group’s cellular business unit’s AI company, SK officers declined to remark further on his system.

“As we speed up our journey to turn out to be an AI organization, we’ll showcase our innovation solutions designed with following-technology data and communications engineering such as AI, metaverse and 6G,” Ryu explained.

“This year’s MWC will be an prospect for SK Telecom’s systems and providers to enter the international sector properly.”

The forthcoming MWC is slated to consider location from Feb. 27 to March 2, with some 1,900 organizations from 160 nations collaborating. This year’s celebration will concentration on the latest developments in mobile technology, from smartphones and fifth-generation and sixth-generation networks to immersive know-how and fintech expert services.

KT will screen its digital transformation technological know-how and the company’s digital communications, or “Digico,” approach primarily based solutions. The wi-fi carrier will operate a booth with a motif of whales, a nod to the animations showcased in KT Studio Genie’s co-produced strike drama “Extraordinary Lawyer Woo” to display the electronic transformation planet that KT will create, the officers stated.

The telecommunications big will introduce technologies of the AI study portal Genie Labs and digital encounter services of its affiliated firms these kinds of as BC Card and KT Studio Genie. In addition to options, platforms and autonomous driving technologies, a shipping and delivery robot that has cooling and heating programs will also be exhibited.

KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo will also provide a keynote speech on the subject of “Is it Time for Co-Development?” at the trade present as a board member of the event’s arranging association, Groupe Speciale Mobile Affiliation. He will present examples of KT’s partnerships in the course of action of transforming the corporation from a telecommunications-oriented organization to a Digico-oriented one.

The country’s 3rd-biggest wi-fi provider LG Uplus, having said that, scrapped its plan to set up its 1st booth at MWC. CEO Hwang Hyeon-sik’s trip to this year’s convention was canceled, according to LG Uplus, in light-weight of the ongoing controversy bordering the company’s information breaches and community provider outages brought about by denial-of-assistance assaults below.

“Instead of (the CEO) examining global telecommunications tendencies at the MWC, executive-level personnel who are in demand of community companies, business tactic and technology sectors will be there to look for ties with world wide associates,” an LG formal explained to The Korea Herald.

“We’re scheduling to notice the world-wide ICT developments and learn potential new advancement engines via the function.”

By Jie Ye-eun ([email protected])