
SK Telecom celebrates 5G first birthday with almost half of local market
Since launching the world’s first 5G service on 3 April 2019, SK Telecom has revealed not only that it has gained a 44.7% 5G market share, but outlined its plans to take 5G technology into what it believes will be potentially lucrative use cases.
The market share data is based on statistics from the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT released in January 2020, and represents 2.22 million 5G subscribers for SK Telecom. According to SK Telecom’s analysis on 5G subscribers, people in their 30s and 40s are taking up 53% of the company’s total 5G subscriber base, which is