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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:42PM
I can type up to a million characters per second. Assuming I've got a keyboard with that repeat rate and I just keep a single key pressed. Of course in practice, I don't have such keyboards available and I also usually type texts which don't consist of repetitions of the same character over and over again, so my actual typing speed is much lower. But hey, I just said "up to".
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:00PM
The speculation is that 20 Gbps could be shared among several users.
Also, if you are far away from the cell/router, of course you won't get the maximum speed.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:29PM
The improvement will be up to 9000 or more...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @07:18PM
Indeed... Up to? Up yours!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:15PM
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* ;)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:29PM
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
If( TCP connection from Micro$slut ) then
deliver_final_payload(BIG);
:D
(Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:47PM
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
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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by negrace on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:59PM
What is this nonsense, up to 20gigabit?
The definition should be "at least 10gigabit". Define the worst-case performance, not the best.
Oh, and throw in unlimited traffic. THAT would be "5G".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:18PM
So, what will this be called in marketing terms?
3G LTE is marketed as 4G.
4G is still not available around here, but I expect it will be marketed as 5G.
Then in a couple of years, when they are still not ready to implement this new standard, they will do an intermediate 4G LTE*, which will probably be marketed as 6G.
Then finally this standard will likely be marketed as 7G.
*) like they did 3G LTE a several years after 4G was doing multi-gigabit speeds
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:25PM
Not sure whether to mod this +1 funny, +1 insightful, or +1 sad but true...
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 2) by MrGuy on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:30PM
There's absolutely no better way to test a new and unproven commercial networking technology than in an environment where there are massively dense crowds in small locations, huge loads on every transceiver, a large diverse and heterogenous set of devices, a likely mix of multiple protocols happening simultaneously, and a high probability that a large number of users will want to refresh data all at the same time (e.g. after the race/heat/event ends)!
Seriously, I can't imagine a WORSE environment to demonstrate a new networking technology than the Olympics. Perhaps the only saving grace is there will be very few users (hopefully) with 5G-enabled handsets by then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:31PM
On the other hand, if it survives the Koreans, it's ready for everyone else.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:45PM
Actually, that is the best environment to test this out. If it works under those conditions, then it will work anywhere. Also, having this happen under the scorching spotlight of focused world attention means that failure will not be an option. Under those circumstances, failure means a lot of anger and uncomfortable questions being directed at the telcos. The telcos will finally have to put up or shut up. No more excuses. I say bring it on!