South Korea’s telecommunications large SK Telecom (SKT) is launching its Ifland metaverse in 49 nations in North America, Europe, the Center East and Asia, the corporate introduced on Wednesday.
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SKT will make the most of K-pop to develop joint content material with varied worldwide companions and strengthen the communication capabilities on the platform to advertise Ifland as a world social metaverse, its press launch acknowledged.SKT has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japan’s largest cell phone operator NTT Docomo to cooperate on content material improvement, know-how and repair of their respective metaverse platforms.Ifland has additionally named Emirati-based tech agency e& and Singapore’s telecommunications group Singtel as its world companions.In September, Ifland added an in-platform economic system the place customers that host conferences on the metaverse can obtain level donations from different customers, which could be cashed out. In Q3 2022, Ifland gathered a consumer base of 12.8 million, in response to the press launch. Its native competitor, Naver Z’s Zepeto, boasts over 300 million downloads globally, with 95% of its customers coming from exterior South Korea.SK Telecom owns over 47% of all cell communications customers in South Korea as of 2021, in response to the Korea Data Society Growth Institute (KISDI).
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