SK Telecom Unveils 'Growth Gear' Strategy Linking Telecom and AI ... Targets Token Economy
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SK Telecom announced the 'SKT Growth Gear' strategy linking telecom, AI services, and AI infrastructure.
The strategy aims to secure new growth engines by connecting telecom, AI services, and AI infrastructure based on AI technology and AX.
The company said it plans to expand its business through the Token Gateway, the AI factory, and GW-class AI data centers.
SK Telecom presented 'SKT Growth Gear,' an integrated growth framework linking telecom, AI services, and AI infrastructure. SKT CEO Jeong Jae-heon unveiled the growth gear strategy at a town hall for employees at SKT Tower on the 8th.
The strategic direction centers on connecting telecom, AI services, and AI infrastructure based on AI technology and AX. The goal is to secure new growth engines.
CEO Jeong Jae-heon said the arena for AI competition and expansion lies not only beyond models and infrastructure, but also in an ecosystem that stably generates, supplies, and uses tokens. Accordingly, SKT plans to combine its telecom customer base, network, AI platform, and infrastructure, with the goal of expanding its market leadership in related markets.
SKT outlined plans to further advance telecom, AI services, and AI infrastructure, respectively. In telecom, it set out AI-based hyper-personalization and autonomous networks as key directions. The company said it would focus on expanding services tailored to each customer's usage context and applying AI to network operations, with the aim of strengthening competitiveness in next-generation telecom infrastructure.
In AI services, it said it would expand beyond the B2B-B2C divide and provide integrated support for customer needs from service buildout through operations. Based on this, it said it plans to expand into new businesses such as defense and public-sector AI, industry-specific AI, and 'AI for everyone.' It explained that these new businesses are based on network and full-stack AI technology.
For its AI infrastructure business, SKT said it will expand data centers and submarine cable businesses together with SK Horizon and SK Hyper, and pursue the development of GW-class AI data centers. It also said the AI factory it is cooperating on with Nvidia is aimed at launching commercial services next year, and that it will then expand in stages.
SKT presented 'Token Gateway' as a new business that connects these initiatives into one. It explained that 'Token Gateway' is a method for managing enterprises' and customers' AI usage patterns and linking them to suitable AI models and infrastructure. To that end, the company envisions leveraging its customer base of 23 million, payment system, AI platform, and infrastructure in combination.
In line with business expansion, the company plans to shift its operating model toward AX and pursue an organizational overhaul that goes beyond simple automation. To that end, it plans to push ahead with automating repetitive tasks, improve work speed, and draw up plans to redesign work methods and organizational structures. Through this, it aims to boost organizational productivity.
The company plans to reinvest the productivity it secures through this process into core growth businesses. SKT will also begin selecting employees through internal open recruitment, applying diverse experience and capabilities as selection criteria. Those selected will be assigned to key businesses, and the company plans to strengthen linkages among businesses through this effort.
SKT CEO Jeong Jae-heon defined telecom and AI as a single growth engine that will shape SKT's future. He also expressed his commitment to improving AX-based organizational productivity and synergy, and to accelerating growth.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
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