Just how fast is 5G, really? OpenSignal’s analysis from South Korea showed blazing speeds, with 5G smartphones averaging 48% faster speeds than comparable 4G smartphones and maximum speeds that pushed to nearly a gigabit.
Average download speeds for 5G smartphone users in South Korea were 111.8 Mbps, OpenSignal said in a blog entry, which it calculated was 48% faster than “comparable recent 4G flagship smartphones” and a whopping 134% higher than the speeds that Korean users of more run-of-the-mill smartphones get, which was around 47.7 Mbps.
