South Korea’s 5G network speed reaches 691Mbps per second

Seoul: South Korea’s 5G download speed and overall quality improved in the second half of the year from the first half as the country races to deploy nationwide coverage of the latest generation network, a report showed on Wednesday.

The average download speed on the high-speed network from the country’s three major mobile carriers — SK Telecom, KT Corp and LG Uplus Corp — stood at 690.47 megabits per second (Mbps) in the second half of the year, up 33.91 Mbps from the first half, according to data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.

SK Telecom had the fastest average download speed at 795.57 Mbps, followed by KT at 667.48 Mbps and LG Uplus at 608.49 Mbps.