![]() ![]() KakaoTalk has already stated that it was not aware of the recent ruling, and that it has not yet been contacted by SK Telecom. ![]() The legal victory ensures that it has more chances of success if it were to take on larger players in South Korea, such as KakaoTalk, which is installed on nearly 95 percent of smartphones in the country and has an estimated 37 million users out of 50 million people. In fact, Viber is not that popular in South Korea, but SK Telecom may take the company on to test the waters. The mobile carrier says simply that the lawsuit is for the protection of its technology. However, these kind of apps are already destroying mobile operators’ voice and SMS revenues, so it’s hardly a surprise that SK Telecom would want to challenge them in the courts. Last year, Talmon Marco, who is CEO and founder of Viber, said that SK Telecom’s move is aimed at stopping companies like Viber and KakaoTalk from operating, and to force Korean users back to short-message-services. Since the software runs in the background, it doesn’t waste system resources. ![]() It also facilitates you to communicate with your friends via group chats. You can share instant messages, make live audio or video calls, and express yourself through expressive stickers. ![]() One of the patents in question deals with an ‘onboarding’ feature, that is already common to lots of other messaging apps such as Line and KakaoTalk, which automatically add a user’s contacts from their phone, to allow users to quickly find people they already know that use the service. Viber is an all-in-one communication application. ![]()
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