At MWC 2026 in Barcelona, SK Telecom outlined how it is rebuilding itself around AI, from its network core to its customer service desks. The shift goes beyond adding new AI tools. It involves rewriting internal systems, expanding data centre capacity to the gigawatt scale, and upgrading its own large language model to more than one trillion parameters. At a press conference during MWC 2026, SK Telecom CEO Jung Jai-hun outlined what the company calls an “AI Native” strategy. The plan centres on reorganising infrastructure and making large investments so the company can help position Korea among the world’s top three AI powers. “SKT is currently at a golden time of transformation, where the two tasks of ‘customer value innovation’ and ‘AI innovation’ intersect in a borderless, converged environment that goes beyond telecommunications,” Jung said.…