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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the when-speed-is-of-the-essence dept.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will define "5G" speeds of up to 20 gigabits per second (2.5 GB/s) by 2020:

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said Thursday it sent a 12-member delegation to an ITU meeting in San Diego, and succeeded in reflecting the nation's suggestions on the international agreement. "The vision for the 5G network and its global standardization schedule has been agreed based on our suggestion. This has shown that Korea is leading the world's mobile communication technology and related policies," a ministry official said. "We will beef up international cooperation to have the agreement approved without any problems.

The ministry said the union has decided to define 5G as a network which is capable of transmitting data at up to 20 gigabits-per-second. This means that users can download one ultra high-definition movie in 10 seconds. The 5G network will also have a capacity to provide more than 100 megabits-per-second average data transmission to over one million Internet of Things devices within 1 square kilometer. Video content services, including ones that use holography technology, will also be available thanks to the expanded data transmit capacity, the ministry said.

The ITU has determined the name of the 5G network as IMT-2020, following the IMT-2000 for the third-generation network and the IMT-Advanced for the fourth-generation one. The official name will be finally approved at the ITU's Radio Assembly in Geneva in October, the ministry said.

The union also decided to target commercializing the 5G network worldwide by 2020. To do so, it will start receiving applications for technology which can be candidates to become the standard for the new network. Consequently, the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games will be the world's first international event to showcase and demonstrate 5G technology.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:15PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:15PM (#200360) Journal

    As long as the business model is shaped by data volume limits (data cap). Technologies that enables really fast speeds are redundant because in reality they can't be used. And thus there will be few incentives to upgrade hardware except for stupid people to brag about their impotent device.

    This is true even for 4G, only 1-2-3G works somehow with present data volume limitations.

    Your new technology proved to be a dud in the hands of MBAs.
    Throw it away? Bang your head again? Pretend everything is as fine as the spam says? *blinking cursor* ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:29PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:29PM (#200369) Journal

    Throw it away? Bang your head again? Pretend everything is as fine as the spam says? *blinking cursor* ;)

    Mmmm... yeap, I know... set 10GB favicons to all the sites, this will heat up their helpdesks.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:31PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:31PM (#200372) Journal

      If( TCP connection from Micro$slut ) then
          deliver_final_payload(BIG);
      :D

  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:47PM

    by Francis (5544) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:47PM (#200382)

    That's probably going to be less of an issue for most people. And for people pulling that much data, they'll probably be happy enough to pay.

    I suspect that this will mostly reduce loading times as video for handhelds isn't going to get much bigger, so caps would have to get even smaller for that to be a problem. And with load times decreased, you'll likely see less waste on buffering.

    The real question though us how much will be wasted on ads and poorly designed websites.

    • (Score: 2) by githaron on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:55PM

      by githaron (581) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:55PM (#200497)

      Caps are already a problem given current video size. I avoid watching videos, streaming music, or even going to sites that might have large files (like animated GIFs) when I am connected via the mobile network. I don't want to eat up my data. This means the phone is least useful when its mobile nature should make it the most useful. It might help if I got to roll over my unused data, but I don't.