KT, Korea’s WiBro service provider, announced the launch of WiBro Wave 2 service that offers the speed twice as fast as current system.
WiBro Wave 2 takes advantage of MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output), one of the core 4G technologies, to increase the speed substantially. It can provide 37.44 Mbps in downlink and 10Mbps in uplink. Average speed is also twice faster than current service, making it possible to download a 3MB MP3 file in 0.7 second, and 700MB movie in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
The service will be provided in Incheon, Goyang, and Suwon city from September and in 19 other cities around Seoul from October, said KT.
KT said that it is going to upgrade WiBro Wave 1 system so that subscribers can use Wave 2 service by upgrading software.
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