SK Telecom
| SK Telecom
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US78440P1084 |
| founding | 1984 |
| Seat |
Seoul , South Korea
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| management | Jang Dong-hyun, President and CEO |
| Number of employees | 4,046 (2015) |
| sales | 17,137 trillion Won (12.18 billion euros ) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.sktelecom.com |
SK Telecom is a South Korean company based in Seoul . The company is among the top ten of the KOSPI share index .
history
The company is a subsidiary of the SK Group . The largest shareholder is SK Corp. (25.22%). (As of 2015) SK Telecom was founded in 1984 and is a telecommunications provider in South Korea. In 2014, the company had a share in this area of 46.2 percent. In the area of combined mobile services, the company leads with a market share of 51.1%, ahead of its competitors KT and LG Uplus. Above all, competitors are concerned that the market leader would dominate the market even more through the acquisition of CJ HelloVision. Ha Sung-min ( 하성민 ) has been the company's CEO since December 2010 . Choi Jin-sung, CTO of the company, was elected chairman of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) in 2016. The TIP is an international joint project of companies working on the 5th generation (5G) network technology. The company is keen to demonstrate the technology to the world at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
In 2014 the company bought iriver .
SK Telecom is one of the first supporters of the FIDO alliance , which has been developing the Universal Second Factor (U2F) industry standard for generally applicable two-factor authentication since 2013 .
SK Telecom has an E-Sport - factory team named SK Telecom T1 , a baseball -Mannschaft (SK Wyverns), a basketball -Mannschaft (SK Knights). The company also sponsors many athletes and sports organizations.
Business areas
SK Telecom (telecommunications and convergence)
- Sensors
- Business solutions
- M2M (machine to machine)
- Cable networks
- Radio networks
- Network R&D
- Smart devices
- Individualized Marketing
SK Planet (service platform, subsidiary of SK Telecom)
- E-commerce
- NFC
- LBS (location-based service)
- Media
SK Hynix (Hardware, subsidiary of SK Telecom)
- Storage
- semiconductor
With the two subsidiaries, SK Telecom will concentrate on the four growth areas:
- ICT convergence
- Research and business development
- education
- health
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c SK Telecom Annual Report
- ↑ Lee Min-hyung: SK Telecom denies plans to dominate broadcasting sector. The Korea Times, March 20, 2016, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ^ SK Group Appoints Ha Sung Min New Chief Executive Officer of SK Telecom . Bloomberg of December 24, 2010 (English).
- ↑ SK Telecom becomes chairman of the 5G union. The Korea Times, May 29, 2016, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ SKT Acquires iriver , accessed February 27, 2017
- ↑ SK Sport ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
