Samsung and KDDI demonstrate 5G network for the first time | Successfully downloaded 8K video at high speed train

On December 1, Samsung Electronics announced that it has teamed up with Japan's telecom giant KDDI Corp. for the first time in a train traveling over 100 kilometers per hour for the first time to demonstrate its 5G network with a data transfer rate of 1.7 Gbps.

The two companies have been working together on 5G networks since 2015. Samsung said the tests will provide the foundation for high-speed Wi-Fi networks in the car and will be more secure than ever before, with 5G routers installed in the car, Samsung, KDDI successfully downloaded an 8K movie on the train and the 4K video shot on the car was also successfully uploaded during the show. KDDI said in a statement that it will continue to test the 5G with Samsung and reach a 5G network by 2020 The goal.

Ericsson, a Swedish telecoms equipment maker, estimates that 5G is expected to accelerate in a few years and billions of subscribers in 2023. Earlier, Ericsson predicted in a half-yearly mobile report that 5G mobile networks will cover six years later With more than 20% of the world's population and 1 billion subscribers, watching video content is a key enabler of mobile data traffic.

Ericsson predicts that the first commercial network with 5G New Radio (NR) technology will be operational in 2019 and will be heavily deployed by 2020 with the United States, South Korea, Japan and China being the first markets to use. Not only that, by 2023 , Each month the amount of mobile data will increase 8 times, to 110 EB (Exabytes), equivalent to 5.5 million HD streaming video.

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