Posted: Mar 17, 2022
In the latest Opensignal update on the 5G mobile network experience across Asia Pacific South Korea impressively tops the chart for all three measures of speed: 5G Download Speed, 5G Peak Download Speed and 5G Upload Speed. South Korean users were the only ones in the region to enjoy average 5G download speeds over 300 Mbps, in fact their speeds reached an astonishing 438 Mbps.
Posted: Feb 25, 2021
South Korea is the most advanced country for 5G adoption with 11.8m 5G subscriptions at the end of 2020 out of a population of 52m people (22.7%). The country’s three operators have deployed 166,250 5G base stations which is approximately 19% of the country’s 870,000 4G base stations.
Posted: Jun 20, 2019
5G is here, but how fast is it? In the first country to see widespread 5G adoption, South Korea, Opensignal’s analytics reveals the average download speed of 5G smartphone owners is 111.8 Mbps or 48% faster than users with comparable recent 4G flagship smartphones1 and 134% higher than other 4G smartphone users. These metrics will likely improve as 5G becomes more mainstream and the early 5G technology matures over the coming months.
