Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced mobile network this year
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[quote=Engadget]Most of us in Europe and North America try not think about how much we're getting smoked by Asia in terms of internet speeds, but here's another reminder: residents in South Korea will soon enjoy 300Mbps wireless on carriers SK Telecom and LG's U+. That follows a similar effort by CSL in Hong Kong, which achieved the same speed by combining two 20MHz LTE bands. However, SK and U+ will use so-called LTE-Advanced 3-band carrier aggregation tech, marrying three bands to achieve the higher speeds. Before residents there can download the proverbial 800MB movie in 22 seconds, though, 3-band aggregation will have to be standardized globally and adopted by smartphone chip makers (Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 chip is rumored to support it). While you're mulling that, SK Telecom will actually be showcasing even better 450Mbps tech in February at Mobile World Congress -- so enjoy your 75Mbps max LTE, citizens.[/quote]
[url]http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/20/sk-telecom-lte-a-300-mbps/?ncid=rss_truncated[/url]
Well. Shit.
Over here in the western world, we're being fucked over by ISPs who want to throttle speeds so they can make more money.
Meanwhile, Asia gets 300Mbps [B]Mobile[/B] networks allowing them to download 800mb in 22 seconds. That's most full-HD movies in under a minute.
You could literally Stream 4K HD on that sort of network, without issue.
Just shows what sort of raw deal we're getting in the UK, and especially the USA.
Hopefully Google Fiber, and some UK-equivalent can come along soon and give us a competitive solution, because 4K streaming sounds good to me. As do all the other perks.
Can phones even do 300 Mbps wireless? Can anything?
And here I am in Australia with a government who only wants to build a wired network that can only go 50Mb/s using aging infrastructure that will most likely need to be replaced in the near future.
Fuck the idiots in charge of my country's future.
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;43616479]And here I am in Australia with a government who only wants to build a wired network that can only go 50Mb/s using aging infrastructure that will most likely need to be replaced in the near future.
Fuck the idiots in charge of my country's future.[/QUOTE]
[I]"It's enough I tells ya! Who's gonna use more than 50 mega bytes per second!"[/I] -Aging, technologically-illiterate politician.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;43616469]Can phones even do 300 Mbps wireless? Can anything?[/QUOTE]
Via WWAN? No, but that's what they're trying to achieve.
Via WLAN? Yes, via IEEE 802.11n.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43616497][I]"It's enough I tells ya! Who's gonna use more than 50 mega bytes per second!"[/I][/QUOTE]
2.91 people / km^2
508.86 people / km^2
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43616497][I]"It's enough I tells ya! Who's gonna use more than 50 mega bytes per second!"[/I][/QUOTE]
Mb = MegaBIT
MB = MegaBYTE
Eh, it's not that surprising. Korea has always had an amazing internal internet structure. High speed, very low ping. But it's a very very closed network and the moment you cross the border to international websites you get hit by a massive ping, slowdowns and other problems.
Their mobile network speed is 3x faster than my home speed :(
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3247572856.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Sio;43616524]Their mobile network speed is 3x faster than my home speed :(
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don't even [B]think[/B] of starting this
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;43616504]2.91 people / km^2
508.86 people / km^2[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;43616509]Mb = MegaBIT
MB = MegaBYTE[/QUOTE]
Yeah it was a joke, like I was quoting the aging politician in charge of deciding infrastructure.
Edited to make it more clear.
If I could just get regular LTE that would be great. Hopefully within the next year my network will roll it out here
[QUOTE=Sio;43616524]Their mobile network speed is 3x faster than my home speed :(
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3247572856.png[/img][/QUOTE]
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Jk don't jesus christ
Meanwhile I barely get service in my house, and my home internet connection is 2mbps. I'm moving to SK, jesus
[QUOTE=smurfy;43616606]If I could just get regular LTE that would be great. Hopefully within the next year my network will roll it out here
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Jk don't jesus christ[/QUOTE]
I have to compensate for my small penis somehow
Don't worry guys competition will drive up our speeds and drive down our prices.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43616497][I]"It's enough I tells ya! Who's gonna use more than 50 mega bytes per second!"[/I] -Aging, technologically-illiterate politician.[/QUOTE]
Why do australians have a jersey accent
[QUOTE=Sio;43616524]Their mobile network speed is 3x faster than my home speed :(
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3247572856.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Why are you complaining
That's a fantastic speed
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10518681/Screenshots/2014-01-21_11-21-10.png[/IMG]
The 4G specs actually call for 1Gbps, but getting that in practise is going to need an awful lot of infrastructure upgrades (And the more people who want it, the worse, wireless bandwidth is shared so you'd need 1Gbps for each user connected, etc.)
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;43616479]And here I am in Australia with a government who only wants to build a wired network that can only go 50Mb/s using aging infrastructure that will most likely need to be replaced in the near future.
Fuck the idiots in charge of my country's future.[/QUOTE]
This is what happens when you put the Liberals in
[QUOTE=Trumple;43616773]Why are you complaining
That's a fantastic speed
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10518681/Screenshots/2014-01-21_11-21-10.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
He's not. he's just trying to brag.
And it's adorbs.
[quote]Before residents there can download the proverbial 800MB movie in 22 seconds, though, 3-band aggregation will have to be standardized globally and adopted by smartphone chip makers (Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805 chip is rumored to support it)[/quote]
The network may be there, but the phones arent
Just remember that a lot of porn sites are blocked in South Korea.
That could explain their fast Internet connections, now that I think of it...
And we in the US still have bandwidth caps for most of our ISP's, yay.
Isn't infrastructure a lot cheaper there, considering how large, for example, the US is?
Not that our ISPs aren't dicks, but surely that'd be a factor.
[QUOTE=Sio;43616524]Their mobile network speed is 3x faster than my home speed :(
[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3247572856.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Quit your jibber jabber.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VQQqo40.png[/IMG]
Note: Test was taken at 0411, definitely "off-peak".
Also, the NBN isn't getting rolled out here.. it got canned.
Edit
Why the dumbs?
I was doing a direct juxtaposition..
I live 130km's (as the crow flies) from Sydney, and 30km's (as the crow flies) from Newcastle; both of these are large cities.. yet you can see the difference, and to top it off, we aren't even getting an upgrade thanks to the LNP.
my korean cousins get the same speeds as I do here in the US
we pay $60/mo, iirc he pays about $3/mo
I don't understand how Korea can get 300 Mbps and I get about 600-800 kbs average, when Korea is roughly 2x the size of here.
I have a 1.5 mbps connection; 200 kbs-500 kbs on downloads.
