In Korea, Smartphones Use Multipath TCP To Reach 1 Gbps

Posted by timothy on Friday July 31, 2015 @03:48PM from the modern-life dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Korean users are among the most bandwidth-hungry smartphone users. During the MPTCP WG meeting at IETF'93, SungHoon Seo announced that KT had deployed since mid June a commercial service that allows smartphone users to reach 1 Gbps. This is not yet 5G, but the first large scale commercial deployment of Multipath TCP by a mobile operator to combine fast LTE and fast WiFi to reach up to 1 Gbps. This service is offered on the Samsung Galaxy S6 whose Linux kernel includes the open-source Multipath TCP implementation and SOCKSv5 proxies managed by the network operator. Several thousands of users are already actively using this optional service.

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1 Gbps by rudy_wayne · 2015-07-31 16:21 · Score: 4, Funny

So you can exceed your monthly bandwidth quota in an hour or less and be charged for overage in record time.
1. Re: 1 Gbps by donscarletti · 2015-07-31 20:52 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  China has quotas on all mobile connection providers, but not on home connections. Australia has them on absolutely anything, unless you pay an exorbitant price.
  
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