SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy smartphones has faster download speeds than Apple Inc.’s iPhone 12 models on local networks in South Korea, a market tracker said Monday. Ookla, which runs internet speed measurement tool Speedtest, conducted a 5G download speed test for major smartphones in the third quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it achieved the industry’s fastest download speed with an advanced telecommunications technology using both 5G and 4G LTE base stations. In a demonstration carried out in Suwon, south of Seoul, the company achieved 5.23 gigabits per second (Gbps) in data speeds, which is [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s 5G download speed and overall quality improved in the second half of the year from the first half as the country races to deploy nationwide coverage of the latest generation network, a report showed Wednesday. The average download speed on the high-speed network from the country’s three [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the fastest 5G download speed in the world, reaching over 350 megabits per second (Mbps), a report showed Monday. The country’s 5G download speed stood at an average 351.2 Mbps, followed by Saudi Arabia at 272.8 Mbps and Taiwan at 247.7 Mbps, industry tracker Opensignal said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, has the fastest 5G download speed among South Korean mobile carriers, a report showed Monday. The mobile carrier’s median 5G download speed in Seoul stood at 476.5 megabits per second (Mbps), followed by the country’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 5G download speed is the world’s second fastest, reaching an average speed of 336.1 megabits per second (Mbps), a report showed Tuesday. The country was only behind Saudi Arabia, which delivered an average 5G download speed of 377.2 Mbps, according to a report from industry tracker Opensignal, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The average download speed via 4G LTE networks in South Korea got faster this year, the country’s ICT ministry said Monday, with SK Telecom Co. offering the fastest data transmission speed. The average 4G LTE download speed in South Korea reached 158.53 megabits per second (Mbps) in 2019, up [...]