South Korea plans to launch 6G trials in 2026

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The country is expected to spend approximately $169m over the course of five years to develop this technology.

The government of South Korea has confirmed plans to carry out a 6G trial in 2026, according to a report by Business Korea. The South Korean government is anticipating the service to be commercially available as soon as 2028 or 2030.

Prime Minister Chung Se-Kyun finalised the government’s strategy to promote R&D for future mobile telecommunication at a meeting of science and technology-related ministers last month.

Additionally, the trial aims to achieve 1Tbps in data transmission speeds, which amounts to roughly five times faster than 5G and latency reduction to one-tenth of current 5G services.

Meanwhile, Chinese company Huawei has begun early stages of researching on 6G technology at its Ottawa Research & Development Center.

KitteNlx on October 1st, 2020 at 19:56 UTC »

AT&T is proud to announce we'll be rolling out our 6GLTE network in 2025, with speeds up to 250mbps and only 198ms of latency.

RebelMountainman on October 1st, 2020 at 18:06 UTC »

Wow would be nice if we could get internet service in our area without paying an arm and a leg. I'm paying $65 for just 12 Mbps and have no other choice if I want internet.

bermudajoe on October 1st, 2020 at 17:00 UTC »

I barely got my cancer from 5G and already I have to start getting my cancer from 6G. /s