South Korea first to roll out 5G offer
South Korea will become the first country to commercially launch fifth-generation — or 5G — services tomorrow as it rolls out the latest wireless technology with Samsung Electronics’ new 5G-enabled smartphone Galaxy S10.
With one of the world’s top smartphone penetration rates, South Korea is in a race with China, the US, and Japan to market 5G, hoping the technology will spur breakthrough in fields such as smart cities and autonomous cars, and drive up its economic growth that slowed to a six-year low in 2018.
