Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) confirmed today that it will support the Linux mobile-phone operating system, and join the LiMo Foundation as a core member, signaling its commitment to the platform.…

Read more »

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) confirmed this morning that it is having preliminary discussions with SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) to explore possible strategic opportunities. We were first last week to…

Read more »

Rafat broke the news Thursday that MVNO’s Virgin Mobile and Helio were considering a merger, and despite the WSJ verifying the tie-up with their own sources, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM)…

Read more »

Fix8, a video chat service that lets users talk via animated avatars, has raised $2 million from SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), adding to the $3 million it raised last year…

Read more »

South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Citigroup, the US’s largest bank, launched a joint venture today to offer mobile financial services in select markets in Asia and…

Read more »

South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

Read more »

Updated: Presenting the move as routine, MNVO Helio just announced that Sky Dayton has moved to non-executive chairman of the board, leaving the post of CEO for Wohnee Sull, who…

Read more »

South Korea’s largest operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has struck a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment to bring more than 200 Hollywood blockbusters, including Spiderman 3 and The…

Read more »

South Korean operators are turning to online and mobile advertising as an alternative revenue source—thanks to pressure both from politicians and consumers to lower the price of mobile phone bills,…

Read more »

Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

Read more »

WSJ is reporting that Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel Corp. rejected a $5 billion investment that would have meant the return of former chairman Tim Donahue. Citing “people familiar with the…

Read more »

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has allocated $70 million of the $100 million it promised Helio back in July, and since Earthlink (NSDQ: ELNK) seems to have yet to allocate its…

Read more »

SK Telecom has teamed up with T-Systems to enter the mobile broadcasting market in Europe and Asia. T-Systems is a unit of Deutsche Telekom that provides IT and telecommunication services…

Read more »

SK Telecom reported an 8 percent growth in net profit year-on-year for the three months ending June 30th to 403.3 billion won ($441.4 million). Revenues were 2.8 trillion won (US$3.1…

Read more »

Some valuable insights into the take-up of mobile TV in South Korea from TU Media, a subsidiary of SK Telecom (via ZDNetAsia).  According to Suh Young-kil, president and CEO of…

Read more »

SK Telecom reported its first quarter earnings results for the 3 months ending March 31st. Net income reached 396.3 billion won (US$472.2 million), a year-on-year increase of 17.54 percent. Sales…

Read more »

TU Media, among the two main mobile TV services providers in Korea, has received about $74.7 million in funding to bolster its still nascent service and possibly expand overseas. The…

Read more »

HBO is doing what it hasn’t done in U.S. yet, at least to this extent: it has tied up with SK Telecom for a mobile VOD venture, and is offering…

Read more »

Korean mobile operator SK Telecom has taken the wraps off “gifticon,” a new service that allows users to exchange small gifts using their Internet chat programs and mobile phones, the…

Read more »

DVB-H has the Mobile DTV Alliance, MediaFLO has the FLO Forum, and now SK Telecom, Toshiba, Glocal Media and International Mobile Broadcasting have joined forces to create the Pan Asian…

Read more »

So says this story in Yonhap...a year after the much hyped launch of the T-DMB-based mobile TV service in Korea, the brouhaha is giving way to mounting pessimism as the…

Read more »

The Korea Times reports that SK Telecom and Google will collaborate on mobile search for the operator’s Nate mobile portal. Details are sketchy at the moment, but the report says…

Read more »

SK Telecom, Korea’s big telecom operator, has posted $2.5 billion in revenues, up 5.3 percent over the same period last year in Q1. It made W668 billion in operating profits,…

Read more »

"Mobile service providers are releasing new services that offer unlimited wireless Internet services for a fixed price, in response to the recent suicide of a middle school student who rang…

Read more »