South Korea’s top mobile carrier, SK Telecom Co., said Monday it has forged ties with Sweden-based Ericsson to jointly conduct studies on the fifth-generation network, which has drawn the attention of the global telecom industry.

SK Telecom and Ericcson will focus on the study of ultra-wideband and low-latency technology used for remote driving, gigabyte-level data transmission, converging time division duplex and frequency division duplex, the mobile carrier said.

The 5G network is expected to be 1,000 times faster than the existing long-term evolution service, allowing users to download an 800-megabyte movie in one second, compared with 40 seconds on the LTE-Advanced network, currently billed as the world’s fastest. The two telecoms will also join forces concerning other vital technologies related to the 5G network that will be found in the near future. SK said its goal is to demonstrate the network at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. (Yonhap)