South Korea’s 5G being into the market in April, in order to accelerate the resolution of 5G coverage, South Korea’s three major telecommunications actively build 5G base stations. It is worth noting that the number of LG U+ base stations in Korea using Huawei equipment breaks through 30,000.

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According to the Korean media “Korea Economy”, the Central Radio Wave Management Office of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Information Technology of the Republic of Korea announced the 5G deployment statistics. In the three major telecommunications companies in Korea, the KT and LG U+ base stations in the industry ranked 2, 3 were deployed faster than the first place. SK Telecom is going to be fast. The data pointed out that LG U+ built 30,000 512-seat 5G base stations, KT built 257,537, and SK Telecom built 21,666, a total of 970,485.

What makes people surprised is that LG U+ is the only Chinese telecom operator to adopt Huawei. Although the industry ranks third, the number of base stations has exceeded 30,000 and won the number champion. LG U+ explained that in the early stage of commercialization of 5G, although the use of Huawei caused controversy and the delay in supply of equipment companies, the base station construction speed lags behind that of competitors, but the recent supply and demand problems have been alleviated.

However, the deployment location of the base station is still heavily biased in the urban area. Of the 3G base stations of the three major telecommunications, 55.8% (43,625 units) are built in the metropolitan area. Overall, LG U+ has the largest number of major cities and roads, but KT is a large city in Seoul Special City, Chungcheongbuk-do and Jeonnam-do, and SK Telecom’s base stations are concentrated in Daegu City and Sejong City.

As of the 29th of last month, the number of 5G transceivers in Korea has reached 180,000 units, which is close to the target of 230,000 units set by the Korean government. Generally speaking, 2 to 3 5G transceivers are installed in the base station, which has the function of similar antennas. Although the number of base stations is less than LG U+, the number of devices exceeds 60,000, which is the highest among the three major telecommunications. SK Telecom and LG U+ are still far from 60,000 units.