South Korea’s 5G users top 14 mn since commercialisation

Seoul: The number of 5G users in South Korea stood at over 14 million last month, two years after the networks first went live in the country, data showed, as the country pushes to accelerate adoption of the latest generation networks.

As of the end of March, 5G subscriptions stood at 14.48 million, accounting for 20 percent of the total 71.1 million mobile subscriptions in the country, according to data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.

South Korea was the first country in the world to commercialize the latest generation networks in April 2019.