S.Korean carrier SK Telecom tops 5G download speed globally

Seoul: SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, ranked No 1 in terms of download speed of 5G networks globally, an industry report showed on Friday.

According to global mobile industry tracker Opensignal, the average download speed using SK Telecom’s 5G network was recorded at 469.6 megabits per second (Mbps), 2.55 times faster than the 184.2 Mbps average among global mobile carriers.

LG Uplus, the country’s third-largest mobile carrier, ranked second, with 429.6 Mbps, followed by Bulgaria’s Vivacom Inc., Tele2 AB of Sweden and KT Corp. of South Korea.