South Korea had been one of the first countries to adopt 5G networking. Telecom operators had launched their 5G services back in April 2019, and as of May end this year, the country had about 6.9 million subscribers for the newer and faster bandwidth.

According to official reports from the country, the number of customers in the country rose by 536,997 in May alone. This number even broke the previous monthly record of 520,478 new subscribers from March. At the moment, the total number of 5G users represent about 10 percent of the total of 69.43 million mobile services lines in the country.

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Notably, South Korea was also the first to commercially launch 5G networking back in 2019 through three telecom operators, namely SK Telecom Co., KT Corp., and LG Uplus Corp. These carries had aggressively marketed the new service in the region, with the Korean government stating that over 115,000 5G base stations have been deployed across the country.

Furthermore, the local government had also agreed on investing KRW 4 trillion (roughly $3.4 billion) in the three major telecom operators’ 5G networks during the first half of this year. This was done to expand the coverage of 5G networking with additional equipment and supporting infrastructure. The next step for the country is to adopt the ultrafast mmWave 5G network, which should reach businesses by the end of this year and personal devices by 2022.

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While MediaTek has launched its own 5G chips, the company had yet to include support for high frequency mmWave bands. Previously, it was reported that MediaTek would launch its new chips with the newer and faster bandwidth in the second half of 2020, but it seems that it has now been delayed and will only be seen by the second half of 2021.

According to a new report, MediaTek has postponed the plan to launch 5G chips with the mmWave bands and will only start mass production of these chips in the second half of 2021. These new processors are likely to belong to the company’s current lineup of Dimensity chip, and would probably be a high end chipset. Furthermore, we can also expect improvements in performance as well, in terms of CPU and GPU, and not just networking.

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The new chips may be based on the 5nm process and feature the ARM Cortec A78/X1 architecture with Mali G78 GPU. Thus, MediaTek might offer a refresh of the Dimensity 1000+ chips or a brand new name altogether. Unfortunately, these are just speculations and the report is also through industry sources and not official as of yet. So take it with a pinch of salt and stay tuned for more updates.

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Samsung has announced that the company has achieved the industry’s fastest 5G speeds in a lab demonstration that combined 800MHz of mmWave spectrum with MU-MIMO technology, running on Samsung 5G mmWave Access Unit.

The company said that it pushed a total of 8.5Gbps to a pair of mobile phones in a lab test that used 800MHz of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum and carrier aggregations to deliver approximately 4.3Gbps to each of the devices.

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Samsung said the test showed mmWave was capable of delivering multi-gigabit speeds that lower spectrum bands were incapable of. Millimetre wave radios are already setting cellular speed records, and now Samsung is showing how new small cells will be accelerating downloads on multiple devices.

The company says that the wide bandwidth from mmWave spectrum enables mobile operators to provide multi-gigabit speeds that lower band spectrums for transformational 5G mobile services. It adds that mobile operators will be able to deliver new and rich services such as 8K video streaming, AR remote learning and holistic VR teleconferencing as well as new use cases.

Several countries, including Japan, South Korea, and the United States of America have already assigned 5G mmWave spectrum, and two of them have already launched their commercial 5G services using the spectrum. Samsung says more than 15 nations are expected to join the 5G mmWave club in the coming years.

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