Ericsson, SK Telecom and BMW Group Korea have announced they have “broken a world record for 5G speeds” in a follow-up to the 5G trials announced in November 2016. On a racetrack in Yeonjong-do, South Korea, a network connection supported data transmission from point-to-point from a car driving up to 170 kilometers per hour.
The test network consisted of four radio transmission points operating in the 28GHz band at BMW Group Korea’s driving center. Under this setup, test results achieved driving speeds of 170 Km per hour while reaching downlink data speeds of 3.6 Gbps. The tests also showed sustained high throughput along the driving track, in particular maintaining throughput in excess of 1.5 Gbps while data transmission was switched from one transmission point to another.
