BARCELONA, Spain, March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SK Telecom
(NYSE: SKM) announced today that it signed MOUs with a number of
overseas companies while participating in the 2015 GSMA Mobile
World Congress being held in Barcelona,
Spain.
Aimed at expanding its presence in the global markets with
extensive knowhow and experience in industry-leading mobile network
technologies, SK Telecom has entered into MOUs with three different
companies namely Taiwan Mobile, Skytel and Nokia Networks.
Under the MOU with Taiwan Mobile, a leading telecommunications
company in Taiwan with about 28
percent of market share, SK Telecom will share its know-how on
better LTE network performance and customer experience management
(CEM) aimed at enhancing Taiwan Mobile's network efficiency and
competitiveness in mobile broadband service. The two companies will
also work together to develop next-generation mobile network
technologies and mobile solution business.
SK Telecom and Taiwan Mobile have cooperated since 2013 in 3G
and LTE network planning and performance optimization. Taiwan
Mobile has successfully commercialized LTE in June 2014 and has attracted more than 1 million
LTE subscribers, which accounts for over 30 percent of the LTE
market, within only six months of the service launch.
SK Telecom has also entered into an MOU with Mongolia's Skytel. Through the MOU, SK Telecom
will provide Skytel with consulting service in LTE network
technologies and network-based solutions developed by SK Telecom to
enable real-time management of customer experience. The MOU is
expected to serve as a chance for Skytel to become a leading LTE
service provider in Mongolia,
where spectrum allocations for LTE will likely take place within
this year.
Moreover, SK Telecom and Nokia Networks have signed an MOU in
Barcelona to further expand their
collaboration in exporting diverse network operational solutions.
By joining hands with Nokia, SK Telecom aims to create new
opportunities in the overseas markets by providing its network
operational knowhow to Nokia's 600 plus customers spread across 150
nations.
"Since launching Korea's first LTE service in 2011, SK Telecom
has led the industry by introducing advanced mobile network
technologies including Multi-Carrier, LTE-Advanced and tri-band
LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation," said Lee
Jong-bong, Executive Vice President and Head of Network
Division at SK Telecom. "We will make ceaseless efforts to keep
enhancing the quality and stability of our mobile networks to
provide the highest level of customer experience, and share it with
mobile operators around the world."
About SK Telecom
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is
Korea's largest telecommunications company with more than 28
million mobile subscribers, accounting for over 50% of the market.
The company reached KRW 17.164
trillion in revenue in 2014. As the world's first company to
commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK
Telecom launched the nation's first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world's
first mobile carrier to commercialize 150Mbps LTE-Advanced in
June 2013 and 225Mbps LTE-Advanced in
June 2014 through Carrier Aggregation
(CA). In line with its efforts to swiftly move towards the
next-generation mobile network system, or 5G, it successfully
commercialized 300Mbps tri-band LTE-A CA. As of December 2014, the company has over 16.7 million
LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers. Based on its strength in network
operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth engines in
areas of platform, Big Data and convergence business. For more
information, please visit www.sktelecom.com or email to
press@sktelecom.com.
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Edelman Korea
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