South Korea developing a 1GBps 5G Network

If you are lucky, you might be roaming around proudly thinking you have a 4G connection, but many are still stuck with good old 3G, but that doesn’t mean that this will stay the same, that's what South Korea's MoE, Science of Technology is trying to change. 5G is where it’s going to be at in the next five or so years, and South Korea hopes to give its country a major start in it.

South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) announced this past Wednesday that it was developing a 5G technology that would make YouTube's widely famous "Buffering" a thing of the past. By investing 1.6 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in the initiative, MEST hopes to produce a 5G network that is capable of speeds that are 1000 times faster than 4G, allowing an 800MB movie file to be downloaded via the airwaves in just one second. The expected timescale for such a thing? In just six years – 2020. Well it sounds to far...but you're just 6 years away from a technology revolution.

NEST may be hard at work on making the whole thing viable, but it says it is also looking into potential uses for the network, with Ultra-HD and holographic streaming high on the agenda. If you’ve ever tried to watch an HD YouTube video on a spotty 3G connection, then the idea of 4K video coming across that network will make your eyes water. Most home broadband connections won’t manage it either, but if South Korea’s MEST has its way, its people will be doing such things on smartphones and wireless dongles. Jealous much?

Of course, MEST isn’t the only one working on 5G technology. Samsung has already demonstrated its own 1GBps cellular connection, but that took some 64 antennas to make it work, and even then there has been doubt cast about the technology by publications such as Forbes, who says Samsung’s claims are nothing more than ‘hyperbole.’ That’s got to sting!

At the moment we still look for ways to find out ways to get a cheaper plans for 4G. Im sure most of us would go crazy looking at the prices of the plans for 5G. Well it's not far until we’ll all be downloading and streaming content through the magic of cellular networks.

Just don’t expect it to be cheap.

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