Telefónica, one of the world’s largest operators serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America, will start pre-installing the Epic Games Store on all new Android smartphones, including Samsung. This was reported by The Verge.

This is part of a “long-term partnership” that aims to bring Fortnite to “millions” of the operator’s devices. This will be the first time that the Epic Games Store will be pre-installed on smartphones.

In fact, Telefónica has already worked with Epic in the past. In 2020, the company introduced direct payments to Fortnite from users’ mobile accounts.

It is interesting how Samsung will react to this, as Epic is also suing this company. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney accuses the company of agreeing with Google not to allow third-party applications on Samsung smartphones.