Numlock News: November 11, 2020 • Pizza, Ant, Coffee
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By Walt Hickey 5G South Korea’s rollout of 5G technology has suffered a number of missteps, so much so that a report indicated 562,656 people have downgraded their service from 5G to LTE, which represents as much as 6.5 percent of the 5G subscribers at the three major mobile carriers at the end of August. South Korea rolled out 5G in April 2019, but customers haven’t been happy with the shorter battery life and less-than-promised speeds, which were supposed to be 20 times faster than LTE but instead have been found to average out to four times faster. The reason for the issues is that the local carriers have adopted the 3.5 gigahertz band to transmit the signal for cost reasons, leaving them at 1.9 gigabits per second, and in order to get the 20 gigabit per second speed promised they’d need 28 gigahertz.
Numlock News: November 11, 2020 • Pizza, Ant, Coffee
Numlock News: November 11, 2020 • Pizza, Ant…
Numlock News: November 11, 2020 • Pizza, Ant, Coffee
By Walt Hickey 5G South Korea’s rollout of 5G technology has suffered a number of missteps, so much so that a report indicated 562,656 people have downgraded their service from 5G to LTE, which represents as much as 6.5 percent of the 5G subscribers at the three major mobile carriers at the end of August. South Korea rolled out 5G in April 2019, but customers haven’t been happy with the shorter battery life and less-than-promised speeds, which were supposed to be 20 times faster than LTE but instead have been found to average out to four times faster. The reason for the issues is that the local carriers have adopted the 3.5 gigahertz band to transmit the signal for cost reasons, leaving them at 1.9 gigabits per second, and in order to get the 20 gigabit per second speed promised they’d need 28 gigahertz.