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South Korea launches the world's first fully mobile 5G mobile networks on Friday. Ultra-fast communications introduced through fifth-generation wireless technology will ultimately affect everything from toasters to phones; from electric cars to power grids.

Cubans will finally have access to the internet from mobiles after the government revealed on Tuesday evening that it would launch 3G services, reported Sputnik.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere's least connected countries.

Turks have ranked first in Europe in the third quarter of 2016 in mobile phone usage, with phone calls at an average of seven hours and 16 minutes (436 minutes) per month, according to a recent survey by Ajans Press. 

The average mobile phone usage per person in Europe was four hours and 17 minutes (257 minutes) in the three-month period. 

Turkey?s three existing mobile operators, Turkcell, Vodafone and Avea, have won the rights to the country?s advanced 4G network due to be established for a sum of more than 1.14 billion euros, in the Aug. 26 tender held by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority.

Another bidder, Netgsm, declined to make an offer.

Turkey did not cancel a planned 4G tender, but will make a 4.5G tender on Aug. 26, a high-level official from the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) has told Anadolu Agency. 

Turkey has an urgent need for more mobile frequencies to meet a skyrocketing demand for broadband services and the required steps should be taken immediately to open the way for such investments, said Hasan Süel, the vice chairman of Vodafone Turkey's executive board. 

Turkey's biggest mobile operator Turkcell and defense company Aselsan signed a framework agreement to develop joint projects in 5G technologies, Turkcell said in a written statement July 6. 

Turkcell, Turkey's leading mobile phone operator, has launched Ukraine's first 3G GSM network service through the Life:) brand. 

The brand, 55 percent of which is owned by Turkcell, was awarded 3G mobile licenses in Ukraine in February. 

The planned tender for 4G Internet technology has been delayed for three months, the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) said in a statement on May 15.

The BTK announced that the tender will be made on Aug. 26 this year, after a three-month delay.