Telia has launched a 5G project in Finland to trial new applications and services based on the next generation technology.
5G Finland has already signed up Nokia and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, as launch partners and is hoping to add more companies in the coming months.
Jari Collin, CTO at Telia Finland, said: “We need wide cooperation to ensure that Finland comes out winning out of this ongoing disruption.
“The challenge concerns industrial actors, public administration and startup and research communities.
“5G enables totally new services and business models, and we need the best to join the effort in order to take out [its] best advantages.”
However, the operator was cagey about its first plans for the project.
Telia Finland is aiming to launch 5G services in Tallinn, Stockholm and Helsinki by 2018, and is working with schools in the capital to see how augmented and virtual reality can be used as teaching aids.
Mika Klemettinen, Program Manager for 5thGear at Tekes, said the agency wanted to ensure Finnish companies can use 5G to “gain international competitive advantage through trials in pre-commercial environments”.