South Koreans can now expertise a major increase within the velocity of free Wi-Fi providers supplied inside metropolis buses throughout the nation, as SK Telecom has efficiently transformed the Wi-Fi providers from LTE to 5G, reaching a fourfold enhance in velocity. The initiative, a part of the 5G conversion mission led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Clever Info Society Promotion Company (NIA), was formally unveiled at an occasion on the Nationwide Palace Museum on December 5.
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LTE to 5G Conversion
In a press launch, SK Telecom, liable for the 2nd and third phases of the mission, introduced that it had accomplished the set up of 5G backhaul-based Wi-Fi 6 or 6E gear on 85.6 % of buses (24,900 items) throughout 16 native governments. Because of this 5G conversion, bus Wi-Fi now supplies steady providers at 300-400 Mbps, which is about 4 instances sooner than the present LTE backhaul.
SKT Connectivity mentioned, “SKT is happy to transform the present LTE-based bus public Wi-Fi service to 5G and contribute to strengthening the standard of individuals’s service accessibility and perceived expertise. As Korea’s No 1 cellular provider, we are going to actively take part in public interest-level tasks that present common providers to the general public and try to create social worth.”
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Improved Accessibility
The opening ceremony featured real-time measurements of bus Wi-Fi speeds, together with a profitable group video name, illustrating the improved accessibility and consumer expertise.
Wanting forward, SK Telecom will conduct 5G Wi-Fi AP improvement and pilot providers with NIA utilizing WiFi 7 know-how. This improvement goals to offer speeds 2.4 instances sooner than WiFi 6, promising an much more speedy and handy public Wi-Fi expertise sooner or later.
