Companies walk past an advertisement for the SK Telecom Co. at the World IT Show 2018 in Seoul, South Korea on May 23, 2018.
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SK Telecom and Swisscom have formed a strategic partnership to offer their users a 5G roaming service in South Korea and Switzerland.
In an bulletin Tuesday, SK Telecom said that, under the arrangement, customers with a Samsung Galaxy S10 5G would be gifted to use a 5G roaming service via Swisscom when in Switzerland. The service will be activated once users download their contrivance’s latest software update.
Prior to today’s announcement on 5G, the companies worked together on a roaming partnership in 2013. Swisscom is objective to expand its 5G coverage to 90% of Switzerland’s population by the end of 2019.
In its own statement, a Swisscom spokesperson said that customers with 5G-enabled phones command be able to access 5G networks in South Korea and Finland.
The service in Finland — via an agreement with Finnish telecoms resolve Elisa — will be available from Wednesday, while the one in South Korea will be activated before the end of this month.
5G refers to the fifth crop of mobile networks and promises cell phone users incredibly fast browsing experiences. It will also smashing other markets, including the autonomous vehicle sector, through its ability to process reams of information and data simultaneously and pronto.
This year has seen major telecoms companies launch 5G networks. At the beginning of July, for instance, Vodafone threw its 5G service in the U.K. It has also said that, over the summer, 5G roaming will be rolled out to customers from the U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain. In realistically, this means that these Vodafone users will be able to use 5G roaming — where available — when call these different countries.