Turk Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 By Chris Smith on Jan 24, 2014 at 3:10 PMSouth Korea plans to further upgrade its cellular data speeds in the coming years, and has announced that it will invest 1.6 trillion won (or $1.5 billion) in a 5G wireless network that will be 1,000 times faster than current 4G technology and will let users download full length movies in under a second, Agence France Presse reports.“We helped fuel national growth with 2G services in the 1990s, 3G in the 2000s and 4G around 2010. Now it is time to take preemptive action to develop 5G,” the science ministry said in a statement. “Countries in Europe, China and the US are making aggressive efforts to develop 5G technology… and we believe there will be fierce competition in this market in a few years.”The 5G service will start rolling out in 2017 and will be commercially available in December 2020 with local carriers including SK Telecom and Korea Telecom. Handset makers including LG and Samsung are expected to help out with 5G development plans and costs as well. The technology would further help the country get a larger share of the world’s telecom infrastructure business, as the government wants to have a 20% stake in the business by 2020, significantly higher than its current 4.4% market share.Interestingly, 5G speeds will also allow telecoms to offer Internet connectivity in bullet trains that travel with speeds topping 500km/h, an unnamed ministry official revealed.http://bgr.com/2014/01/24/south-korea-5g-wireless-network-launch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEEL Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Yep, saw this Yesterday on S.A. News via Sat Link. Only :shit: . We in South Africa are Looking At 2020 Install Date :banned: :lol: :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That's it. It's official now. I'm moving to Seoul in December 2020 :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Yeah! But then how much this cost for consumers?When 4G arrived on my country the speed is below 100mbps which does not follow 4G specs of 100mpbs-1GBPS.We got 42mbps 4G and it costs around huge $$$ plus its capped to 1.5GB, 5GB, 10GB and 21GB download. So if this 5G arrives and has speed of 1000 times the speed of 4G(100mbps - 1Gbps) we get around 420mbps which is the speed of 4G on another country! :lmao:Yeah! I'm bitter! :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[email protected] Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Actually you can not download with that speed in one 1 second, that's because ssd drive is capable(limit) to write data max 450mb/s. But Pci express can do more about 2 GB/s but that is not enough for full hd movie rip (5 gb) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 :ROCKON: I'll mount a 1000 yottabytes server on Seul to :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoJoe Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 You’ll Download Full Movies in a Second.....Hmm...I thought they didnt want us to DL movies? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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