{"id":141698,"date":"2019-06-11T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=247237"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:46:17","slug":"south-korea-nears-5g-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/11\/south-korea-nears-5g-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea nears 5G landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSouth Korea was tipped to hit a million 5G subscribers by the end of this week, Yonhap News Agency reported, reaching the milestone just over two months after launch.<\/p>\n<p>The country was one of the contenders [1] vying for the title of hosting the first live commercial 5G network alongside the US, with operators in both releasing services during the first week of April [2].<\/p>\n<p>Industry sources at the news agency said uptake of the new technology in South Korea had been driven by strong demand for the \u201clatest gadgets\u201d and aggressive promotions.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of May South Korea\u2019s government [3] said 260,000 consumers had already signed-up, with the figure reportedly rising to over 800,000 by 5 June and topping 900,000 days later. Numbers rising at the same rate would put uptake at over 1 million by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>In late May operator executives said consumers of the new network technology were recording much higher data usage than 4G users [4].<\/p>\n<p>Strong consumer appetite for 5G services in South Korea fits with an optimistic prediction [5] for uptake of the technology released by Ericsson earlier today.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/verizon-stakes-5g-claim-with-mobile-launch\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/korea-operators-set-consumer-5g-tariffs\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/korea-operators-amass-260k-5g-customers\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/data-use-surges-on-korea-5g-networks\/<br \/>\n[5] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/ericsson-ups-5g-subscriber-forecast\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea was tipped to hit a million 5G subscribers by the end of this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/south-korea-nears-5g-landmark\/\">South Korea nears 5G landmark<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/11\/south-korea-nears-5g-landmark\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,2803,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-ARs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141699,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141698\/revisions\/141699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}