SK Telecom (SKT), a leading telecommunications operator and Singtel have forayed into an agreement to team up on building telecommunications networks that will drive innovation, further develop network execution and security and offer improved customer experiences in the following two years.

 

In accordance with the agreement, both parties will investigate the application of AI, orchestration tools, and network virtualization and other technologies that are essential to laying the groundwork for moving to 6G.

 

“The collaboration between SKT and Singtel marks a significant first step in shaping the future of the global telecommunications industry,” SKT head of ICT Infra Jong-ryeol Kang said.

 

“By combining the strengths of both companies, we aim to achieve significant advancements in next-generation communication technologies such as 6G and AI infrastructure.”

 

SKT and Singtel will work together to improve their network slicing capabilities and investigate various methods for activating specialized, tailored slices of their networks that better meet the requirements of society and the industry.

 

Additionally, both businesses intend to create a fully disaggregated mobile network that will offer a "more flexible, cost-effective, and scalable" approach to network management and design. They intend to accomplish this by utilizing Singtel's telco cloud, which provides flexible and scalable network components for the core, transport, and radio access networks.

 

The partnership also incorporates SKT and Singtel co-developing standardised telco application programming interfaces (APIs), facilitated by an open gateway, an “interoperable and federated network” with open standard APIs.