SK Telecom - Q1 2024
May 8, 2024
Transcript
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Good afternoon, I am Hee Jun Chung, IRO of SK Telecom. Thank you for joining SK Telecom's earnings conference call.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Today we will first deliver a presentation on major events, 2024 Q1 earnings highlights, and business performances, which will be followed by the Q&A session.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The call is attended by our executives from relevant business divisions, including Yang Seob Kim, CFO of SK Telecom, and we are providing consecutive interpretation for the call.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As you may know, I would like to remind you that all forward-looking statements are subject to change depending on various factors such as market and macro situations.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Let me now present our CFO.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Good afternoon, this is Yang Seob Kim, CFO of SK Telecom.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
2024 is a very meaningful year as it marks the 40th anniversary of SK Telecom. The 40-year history of SK Telecom indeed represents the history of ICT Korea. We have been leading the communications market with innovative services and unparalleled quality competitiveness. Now, SK Telecom is taking on a new challenge to become a global AI company.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
At MWC 2024 held in Barcelona in February, SK Telecom held an inaugural meeting of the Global Telco AI Alliance, or GTAA, and announced a plan to establish a joint venture for business cooperation, including joint development of telco-specific large language models. Going forward, SK Telecom will invite leading telcos in respective regions to expand the GTAA and lead cooperation among diverse companies, thereby positioning itself as a global AI company.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Let me first report on the consolidated financial results for Q1 of 2024.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Thanks to the stable growth of SK Telecom and SK Broadband, consolidated revenue posted KRW 4,474.6 billion, up 2.3% year-over-year. Operating income posted KRW 498.5 billion, a similar level year-over-year, thanks to the stabilization of marketing expenses and depreciation costs. Net income posted KRW 361.9 billion.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
On a non-consolidated basis, revenue posted KRW 3,188.7 billion, up 2.3% year-on-year. Operating income and net income reported KRW 436.4 billion and KRW 492.1 billion, respectively.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Let me now turn to business highlights for Q1 of 2024 and strategic directions in accordance with the AI Pyramid Strategy.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
First, I'd like to cover the AI infrastructure domain, which serves as the foundation of the AI Pyramid.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Supported by the continued increase in utilization rates, data center revenue grew 26% year-on-year. At MWC in February, SK Telecom declared a full-scale launch of AI data center business, which will be critical infrastructure in the AI domain. The company also announced plans for global business cooperation with Lambda, a cloud server provider powered by NVIDIA's latest GPUs.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
To be a global leader in the next-generation AI data center market, SK Telecom is also planning to mobilize capabilities of SK Group. Specifically, we will cooperate with SK Enmove to speed up the commercialization of liquid immersion technology, capitalize on SK Hynix high-bandwidth memory chips and our subsidiary Sapeon's AI chip capabilities for data centers, and utilize SK Broadband's data center operational know-how.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
As for LLM, we are pursuing the development and commercialization of telco-specific LLM together with the members of the GTAA, including Deutsche Telekom, e&, Singtel, and SoftBank. The GTAA members have a total of 1.3 billion subscribers in 50 countries across the world, which enables them to collect multilingual telco-specific data on a scale larger than any big tech company could ever achieve. Through the GTAA, we will achieve economies of scale and strengthen negotiating power against large tech companies. The GTAA joint venture plans to develop a more advanced telco-specific LLM through training with multilingual telco data and provide locally tailored services.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Next is the AIX domain.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
The MNO business recorded 15.93 million subscribers as of the end of March 2024, which accounts for 70% of the total subscriber base. SK Broadband's pay-TV subscribers and broadband subscribers reached 9.59 million and 6.99 million, respectively, as of the end of March 2024. While the fixed-line mobile industry is maturing, it is meaningful that our subscriber base continues to grow through new market development. We're also striving to enhance OPEX and CAPEX efficiency by actively applying AI technology to our fixed-line mobile business.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
The enterprise business achieved an approximately 10% growth year-over-year. In particular, the cloud business revenue grew nearly 40% year-over-year, mainly thanks to recurring sales, thereby driving the entire enterprise revenue growth. The enterprise AI business, which includes big data, AICC, and vision AI, saw its revenue grow more than 10% year-over-year. We will further promote the enterprise AI business as a key pillar of our B2B business by continuously developing innovative AI products such as the recently released TransTalker, an AI simultaneous interpretation solution.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Next, AI services.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
The call recording and summary service, and real-time call interpretation service of A., which were very popular among iPhone users, are available on Android handsets starting from April. Going forward, A. will continue to add killer services and evolve into a truly personal AI assistant. Our long-term goal is to secure new business models through successful development of global PAA together with the GTAA members.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
As for ifland, thanks to the stable trend of if home and the economic system launched last year, MAU recorded 2.46 million as of the end of March 2024, and the average duration per user on the platform increased to 90 minutes, indicating that ifland has become a meaningful and substantive platform for users. T Universe achieved MAU of more than 2.6 million as of the end of Q1 of 2024, driven by the popularity of the YouTube Premium package. In the first half of the year, we plan to turn T Universe into a subscription market to expand partnerships and solidify its position as a leading subscription service in Korea.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
Finally, let me turn to shareholder returns.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
SK Telecom recently announced a medium-term shareholder return policy of returning to shareholders more than 50% of the adjusted net income on a consolidated basis. The decision is driven by our commitment to enhance shareholder returns in line with earnings improvement by leveraging resources including subsidiary results on a consolidated basis and eliminating caps on shareholder returns. The DPS for Q1 was determined at KRW 831, the same as Q1 of last year.
Speaker 9
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Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
As we mentioned at the shareholders' meeting, SK Telecom will produce tangible results as an AI company. We will further solidify our strong fixed and mobile business foundation, improve the business fundamentals in terms of profitability and efficiency, and produce concrete results by fully executing the AI Pyramid Strategy. We will continue on this journey to achieve our grand vision of becoming a global AI company.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
We ask for your continued support and encouragement. Thank you.
Speaker 9
[Foreign language]
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
We will now begin the Q&A session.
Operator (participant)
[Foreign language] now Q&A session will begin. Please press star one, that is star one, if you have any questions. Questions will be taken according to the order you have pressed star one. For cancellation, please press star two, that is star [Foreign language] the first question will be presented by Kim Hoi-jae from Daishin Securities. Please go ahead with your question.
Kim Hoi-jae (Research Analyst)
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Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I am Kim Hoi-jae from Daishin Securities. I would first like to ask a question regarding your new shareholder return policy. You mentioned that you are planning to return to shareholders more than 50% of the net adjusted income on a consolidated basis. But when we take a look at the past dividend payout trend, the overall payout ratio was about 70% in real terms. Now you're mentioning that it will be more than 50% of the adjusted net income. Does that mean that there is a likelihood for your dividend payments to decline going forward? Until recently, you mentioned about the specific amount of dividends that you're planning to pay to shareholders, but this time it was not included in your presentation. So would it be appropriate for us to expect that this year's dividend payout will be similar to that of last year?
I would also like to understand if you have any plans for share buyback and cancellation in the near future. Secondly, I would like to ask a question about your capital allocation plan. I can see that you need resources for shareholder returns, but at the same time, you need resources for investments. As you mentioned, you are going to pursue your AI strategy in full swing starting from this year, which means that you will have to make investments. While the MNO revenue trend is not very improving, I'd like to understand how you are planning to allocate your capital resources and what is the size of AI investment that you're expecting this year. Thank you.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
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Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I am CFO Yang-Seob Kim of SK Telecom. Thank you for your questions. I would first like to comment on our new shareholder return policy.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As you may know very well, for the past three years, our dividend policy was based on 30% to 40% of the EBITDA minus CAPEX amount on a non-consolidated basis. That was the basis for our shareholder return. So far, we have received a lot of input from shareholders and investors, and we've been trying to accommodate them as much as possible.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
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Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We believe that this new shareholder return policy is quite differentiated from the previous ones in that, first of all, there is no limit or cap on resources available for shareholder returns, and that it is all on a consolidated basis so that we can share results of the subsidiaries with shareholders.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
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Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
You also asked a question regarding why we have set the baseline as 50% while we actually used more than 70% of the net income for dividends in the previous years. I'd like to comment on your point. The 50% is just the minimum baseline. As we are announcing the three-year shareholder return policy, three years is a rather long term in this regard. We wanted to have some cushion against risks around future management environment. I'd like to once again ask you to see that this does not mean that we will only return 50% of the net income. It is just the minimum level.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We will do our best to elevate the baseline by continuing to improve our business fundamentals, and we will make sure that we can return more to the shareholders going forward.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
While the actual size of shareholder returns for each year will be determined through discussions at the board, what I can say to the shareholders is that the level of dividends paid out to the shareholders will be similar to that of last year, and we will make sure to achieve that.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As for potential plans for share buyback and retirement, given the recent interest rate trends, we still believe that it is meaningful to buy back and retire shares when the stock price is undervalued.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As for means of shareholder return, we will, of course, consider both cash dividends and share buyback, but our priority is to maintain a stable cash dividend trend. We will continue to consider diverse factors such as valuation, financial structure, investment for growth, and foreign investor stake, deciding whether to proceed with additional share buyback and cancellation in the future.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Next, I'd like to comment on our capital allocation plans.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
While there have been some fluctuations, consolidated EBITDA of SK Telecom is around KRW 5 to KRW 5.5 trillion, and we spend about KRW 3 trillion of CAPEX and KRW 1 to KRW 1.5 trillion of recurring expenses, including frequencies and interest payments. Then we have about KRW 1 trillion of free cash flow.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
While you may think that KRW 1 trillion of free cash flow is a large amount, considering about KRW 700 billion of cash dividends each year, it's true that we do not have much room to maneuver around investments for growth and loan management.
[Foreign language]
While we have maintained a relatively high level of shareholder returns, corporate value is not just determined by the size of shareholder returns, but I'm sure that investors understand that we need further growth to be able to enhance our corporate value.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Of course, as we are currently positioned as a telecom stock, we fully understand that dividend is what supports our valuation in the market. But it is important to achieve balance between investment for growth and shareholder returns for the purpose of valuation enhancement.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In order to secure resources for future investments, including investments for AI to drive growth, we will do our best to create additional resources in all domains, including profitability improvement through cost control, securitization of certain assets, and investment efficiency enhancement. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
[Foreign language] The next question will be presented by Sun Jung Lee from Bank of America. Please go ahead with your question.
Sun Jung Lee (Equity Research Analyst)
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Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I'm Lee Sun Jung Lee from Bank of America. Thank you for this opportunity. As you mentioned in your previous answers, you are going to continue to try to expand resources available for shareholder return. So in this regard, I'd like to get more details on your business plans. In particular, the telco revenue and the growth momentum is slowing down. So what are your key priorities for this year for your MNO business as well as strategies? And secondly, starting from last year, you have been pursuing and implementing the AI Pyramid Strategy, and you are promoting your AI businesses. So I'd like to get a better understanding of the achievements so far and future plans. Please also share with us your plans for investments so that we can understand how much resources will be available for shareholder returns. Thank you.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Thank you for your questions. As for the first question, the Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office will comment on the key priorities and strategies for the MNO business. And then the Head of the Corporate Strategy Office will comment on the major achievements and plans for the AI Pyramid Strategy.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I am Kim Ji-hyung, Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office. I believe you asked this question because the MNO growth trend centered on 5G subscriber net adds is likely to slow down, with the 5G penetration rate being nearly 70%.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Going forward, the key to our MNO business will be to grow the top line through pricing and differentiated and competitive services, as well as enhancing the operational efficiency through AI technology.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
More specifically, we announced new price plans at the end of March, including a KRW 30,000 range 5G plan and an additional segment pricing plan for the youth. It is intended to offer more customer benefits and options in order to retain customers who are sensitive to price.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In consideration of the popularity of OTT services in Korea, we offer our 5G customers discounts for OTT subscriptions, and we also launched a new premium price plan. These are part of our effort to continue to create demand based on customers' needs.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Also, we restructured roaming plans into better pricing schemes to respond to increasing travel needs after the pandemic. This has resulted in increasing roaming revenue. It is an example of how we continue to develop new revenue streams.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language].
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In terms of market operation, we use AI technology to recommend products and services tailored for customers and conduct more efficient marketing by utilizing online channels for customer acquisition.
Kim Ji-hyung (Head of the Integrated Marketing Strategy Office)
[Foreign language] AICC [Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Finally, we are also planning to utilize AI contact centers to enhance customer experience and improve cost efficiency in an effort to further improve the MNO profitability and productivity. Thank you.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Hello. I am Choi Hwan-seok, Head of the Corporate Strategy Office. I'd like to address your question on the AI Pyramid Strategy's major achievements and future plans.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As the CFO mentioned during his presentation, the Global Telco AI Alliance, or GTAA, was officially launched in February to expand SK Telecom's AI Pyramid Strategy globally.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The founding members of the Global Telco AI Alliance are Deutsche Telekom in Europe, e& in the Middle East, Singtel in Southeast Asia, and SoftBank in Japan, as well as SK Telecom. When combined, we have access to 1.3 billion subscribers in 50 countries.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In addition to these five founding members, we have been receiving a lot of interest and attention from various telecom companies around the world. We are in the process of expanding the membership of the alliance. We will achieve economies of scale and global coverage by utilizing global telco's customers, technology, and service capabilities.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
When we apply what I just mentioned to the AI Pyramid Strategy, the first layer is the AI infrastructure domain. There we plan to develop telco-specific LLMs based on multinational customers and data and offer it to our member companies. We believe that this will help build a common platform for telcos and strengthen our negotiating power against big tech companies.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In addition, AIDC and AI semiconductors are part of the AI infrastructure domain. We have been accumulating related capabilities. We will not only utilize these capabilities internally but also offer them to the members of the GTAA so that we can expand our business globally.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The second layer of the AI Pyramid Strategy is the AIX, which involves transforming TDE, or MNO, media and enterprise businesses using AI. As was mentioned previously, we are planning to use AI for customer contact and marketing activities. Furthermore, we will share these use cases of telco-specific use cases of AI with members of the GTAA and expand them globally to build global references for Telco AIX.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Finally, the top layer of the AI Pyramid Strategy is about developing global PAA. It refers to services provided by the GTAA on the common telecom platform that we will build for the first layer. The PAA service of A. will be expanded globally. Each telco will be able to localize PAA for their local users and present new customer experiences.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
You also asked a question about the plans for AI investments. As was the case of our investment in Anthropic last year, when we see opportunities that are very much in line with our AI strategy and where we can create synergies, we will make reasonable and various types of investments for AI.
Choi Hwan-seok (Head of the Corporate Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
As for specifics on what companies or how much investment or when, we have not yet finalized on these details. But we are going to continue to approach them from an enterprise or company-wide perspective. And we will be prudent and careful in making decisions regarding these investments in consideration of credibility and the size of resources available. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
[Foreign language] the next question will be presented by Eun Jung Shin from DB Financial Investment. Please go ahead with your question.
Eun Jung Shin (Analyst)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I would like to ask two questions. When I look at the IR material, I can see that among your MNO services, your roaming usage is constantly on the rise. So if there are any specific statistics that you can share with us regarding roaming, I would appreciate that. I would also like to understand your outlook on your roaming business. The second question has to do with your growing enterprise business. What was the actual result for Q1, and what is your annual or full-year outlook on your enterprise business? Thank you.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Thank you for your questions. I would like to address your question on our roaming business. The head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office will address your second question on the enterprise business. I'd like to comment on the actual results of the roaming service and outlook.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In 2023, the outbound travel was only about 70% of the level of 2019. However, the roaming usage increased by 1.5x.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We believe that this roaming usage increase was mainly thanks to the expansion of the customers, thanks to marketing campaigns to reduce the financial burdens for customers, including 50% off promotion for the first-time roaming users and 50% off for the youth, and more data provision for the same price plans, as well as differe ntiated services such as the baro call plan that more than 75% of the roaming price plan customers are using.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The outlook for roaming business is pretty bright because 2024 is expected to be the first year since the pandemic when outbound travel will reach the 2019 level.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Thanks to the Family Roaming and 50% off promotion for December, the number of roaming users in Q1 grew 1.6x year-over-year and compared to Q1 of 2019. This year, roaming usage growth is expected to be driven by the Family Roaming service utilized by more than 70% of households that use roaming, as well as the increased roaming usage by 0 Youth Plan subscribers that enjoy 50% off for roaming at all times.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In particular, the Family Roaming subscribers are constantly on the rise from 280,000 in Q1 of 2023 to 410,000 in Q1 of 2024. Up 46% quarter-on-quarter. With a high level of customer satisfaction, the Family Roaming service has become a major SK Telecom roaming product with the cumulative number of users standing at 970,000 since it was launched in June 2023.
Yang-Seob Kim (CFO)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Going forward, we are planning to offer promotions for first-time users to experience roaming service without much burden and launch differentiated roaming products in order to continue to attract new customers. Thank you.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
I'm Bae Jae Joon, Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office. I'd like to address your question on our enterprise business.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
In Q1, enterprise revenue posted KRW 415.4 billion, up 9% year-over-year thanks to the increase in data center utilization rates and cloud contracts.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The data center business continues to grow on a quarter-over-quarter basis on the back of increased utilization of new data centers. The annual data center revenue for 2024 is expected to record a similar growth rate as last year.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We're also in the process of establishing new data centers in the Seoul metropolitan area to become Korea's number one data center provider by doubling our capacity to more than 200 MW by 2030.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The cloud business will focus on growing multi-cloud business and expanding AI cloud business based on higher demand for AI cloud brought on by the popularity of ChatGPT.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
For MSP, we will continue to support a transition to multi-cloud, and we will utilize our own cost optimization technology to gain contracts from big accounts to achieve meaningful scale-up.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
The enterprise AI business growth has been driven by the increased contracts for AICC, which is a transition from the traditional IPCC.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We are also trying to respond preemptively to the upcoming trend where AI is utilized for B2B market. So we recently launched new products, including TransTalker, an AI simultaneous interpretation solution that supports 13 languages, SK Telecom AI CCaaS, a subscription-based AI contact center service, and AI copywriter that can generate advertising copies.
Bae Jae-joon (Head of the Enterprise Business Strategy Office)
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
We are planning to continue to identify new opportunities and capture them and scale up our business by actively targeting expected AI demands in the B2B market.
Speaker 10
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Operator (participant)
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Speaker 10
[Foreign language]
Hee Jun Chung (Investor Relations Officer)
Now this concludes the earnings conference call for Q1 of 2024. If you need further explanations or have additional questions, please contact IR anytime. Thank you.