Taking you to Busan now...and one of the major
topics at the ongoing ITU conference there
is the next generation of mobile communications
technology... known as 5G.
If you thought your 4G or broadband connection
was super fast, then you haven′t see anything
yet
Song Ji-sun filed this report from Busan.
In a little over five years time,... when
5G technologies are fully commercialized,...
people will be able to download a high-definition
movie in less than one second.
The fifth generation of mobile communications
technology is several hundred times faster
than its predecessor LTE... as a giga-level
data rate is now a reality.
"In the early years of 2020, it will feature
approximately 6 giga bytes per second of data
rate and may eventually reach up to tens of
gigabytes per second.
However, what is more important is that the
peak data rate is the minimum data rate experienced
by the user."
That threshold... will be maintaining a minimum
data rate of 1-gigabyte per second.
But Samsung recently succeeded in establishing
a 1-point-2 gigabyte per second data rate...
on a vehicle that was traveling at 100-kilometers
an hour.
So we are inching closer to realizing the
next generation of mobile technology... something
that will connect all individuals and things
also known as Internet of Things.
"When 5G technologies launch in 2020, everyone
will be connected, every object will be connected
to each other, and objects and individuals
will be connected.
It will be an ultra-connected world, which
will mark the beginning of an entirely different
paradigm for ICTs."
"The Korean government aims to test its 5G
technologies at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter
Olympics.
It says the sporting event will be a global
test bed for the technology we can expect
to see in the post-2020 era.
Song Ji-sun, Arirang News, Busan.′
