South Korea communications minister Yoo Young-min asked the country's wireless operators to work together to ensure the availability of 5G in 2019, while also requesting reduced consumer prices for wireless services. The Korea Bizwire reported the politician met with the heads of SK Telecom, LG Uplus and KT to ask the trio to collaborate on the new technology to meet a previously agreed timeline of first commercial operations in 2019 and nationwide deployment in 2020.