Three major operators in South Korea were fined for promoting 5G network speed of 20Gbps
3 min readThree major operators in South Korea were fined for promoting 5G network speed of 20Gbps
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The three major operators in South Korea were fined for promoting 5G network speed of 20Gbps and returned 28GHz licenses.
It has been 4 years since the 5G license was issued. South Korea is also determined to win 5G technology and claims to be the first country in the world to commercialize 5G.
However, the three major operators were fined heavily for false promotion of 5G network speed not long ago.
South Korea’s antitrust regulator decided in late May to fine the country’s three mobile operators a total of 33.6 billion won (about 26 million US dollar) for misleading advertisements about the speed of 5G network services.
It is reported that SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus have exaggerated the performance of 5G network services in their advertisements, claiming that they can experience a speed of 20Gbps, but the average download speed is between 656 and 801Mbps, which is only 3% to 4% of 20Gbps.
The three major Korean telecom operators, SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus, were fined for this. However, this matter is not as simple as a simple false propaganda leading to fines. It also involves the issue of South Korea’s 5G millimeter wave network.
The 20Gbps network speed advertised by the three operators is achievable, but it is not easy to achieve, because this can only be achieved in the 5G millimeter wave frequency band.
Before that, the three operators obtained the operating license of South Korea’s 28GHz millimeter wave frequency band in 2018. .
The premise of winning the license is to promise to build a large number of millimeter-wave 5G base stations, each with at least 15,000, but five years have passed, and progress has been slow.
KT and LG Uplus have only completed 10% of the base station construction, and SK Telecom has only a few thousand millimeter wave base station.
The reason why operators are unwilling to build millimeter-wave base stations is also very simple.
The network speed in the 28GHz frequency band is very fast, but the signal is not good, the coverage is poor, and the cost is high. Achieving the goal requires huge investment.
The fines imposed by South Korean regulators are also for the purpose of putting pressure on them.
However, after this fine, the three major operators in South Korea simply quit. Recently, SK Telecom also returned the 5G millimeter wave licenses to the telecom regulators. So far, all three operators have given up. Millimeter wave base station construction.
Faced with the resistance of the three operators, South Korea plans to establish a fourth operator, which may be shot by Hanwha Group.
Three major operators in South Korea were fined for promoting 5G network speed of 20Gbps
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