[Jung Gu-min's Look Inside] Mobile carrier LLM service leading to exports
Due to the characteristics of mobile communications with a lot of voice calls, the application of giant language models (LLMs) is becoming more important.
Introduction of related technologies by LG Uplus, [Photo = Professor Jung Gu-min of Kookmin University]
Major mobile carriers that have invested heavily in artificial intelligence are increasingly providing LLM models or application services to other countries or other operators.
Various related cases were presented at MWC 2025.
Global Telco AI Alliance led by SKT
SKT announced the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) at MWC 2024.
This alliance was participated by Deutsche Telekom from Germany, E& from the United Arab Emirates, Singtel from Singapore, and SoftBank from Japan.
At MWC 2025, cooperation with GTAA was further strengthened and specific directions were presented.
SKT is expected to take the lead in GTAA and engage in global cooperation based on its experience in mobile LLM services based on AI technology development and cooperation with investment companies.
Introducing the Global Telco AI Alignment led by SKT. [Photo = Professor Jeong Gu-min of Kookmin University]
LG Uplus's plan to advance into the Middle East
Late last year, LG Uplus introduced Ixigen, a generative AI technology for mobile communications, and Ixios, a related service, based on the LG AI Research Institute's ExaOne.
At MWC 2025, LG Uplus announced a collaboration with Zain Group, which provides mobile communications services in the Middle East and Africa.
LG Uplus plans to provide mobile communications-related AI services in the Middle East and Africa, starting with Saudi Arabia.
The company announced that it plans to launch the service in Saudi Arabia within the year.
Orange Telecom's entry into Africa Orange
Telecom, a European mobile carrier, plans to expand its LLM service that learns African languages to the African region.
At MWC 2025, Orange Telecom announced that it has launched commercial services starting with Orange Senegal.
Based on existing LLM models such as Metarama 3, it is providing mobile-based LLM services by learning the Senegalese language.
Orange Telecom plans to expand its service area by learning various languages in the African region in the future.
Introducing Orange Telecom's Senegal service. [Photo = Professor Jeong Gu-min, Kookmin University]
GSMA's Open Telco LLM Benchmark
The GSMA, which is hosting the MWC, announced an open source community initiative for future mobile LLM evaluation and performance improvement.
This meeting is attended by mobile carriers such as SKT and LG Uplus of Korea, Deutsche Telekom of Germany, and Turkcell of Turkey, as well as equipment manufacturer Huawei of China, AI company Hugging Face, Khalifa University of the Middle East, and the Linux Foundation.
In the future, we plan to evaluate AI models with a standardized benchmarking framework for telecommunications companies, AI companies, etc., and help expand the mobile telecommunications LLM business.
Benchmark results for the initial model [Photo = Hugging Face]
Mobile telecommunications LLM revenue modeling
Like the trend of MWC where 'AI' is newly emphasized in addition to the existing 'telecommunications', the LLM service of leading telecommunications companies is becoming a new revenue model for latecomers.
If mobile telecommunications networks were exported in the 5G era, a model that exports related services will emerge in the era of generative AI.
Company officials predicted that mobile telecommunications LLM services will be able to expand to regions such as Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. We look forward to good performance by Korean companies in related markets in 2025.
Who is Professor Koo-min Jeong of Kookmin University?
Professor Koo-min Jeong of Kookmin University [Photo = provided by the person]
Professor Koo-min Jeong of Kookmin University's Department of Electronic Engineering was a founding member of NeoMtel Co., Ltd. and later worked at SK Telecom. He is an expert who has worked in both industry and academia, including as an advisory professor at Hyundai Motor Company's Production Technology Development Center, LG Electronics' CTO Division, Samsung Electronics' Software Center, Naver Labs, and as an outside director at Ubiquitous. He
is currently an outside director at Humax and Hyundai Autoever, an advisory professor at Hyundai Kepco, senior vice president of the Korea Mobility Society, vice president of the Korea Information and Communications Technology Society, and director of the Information and Control Division of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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