Samsung is testing communications technology 5G rate of 1 gigabit per second

South Korea's Samsung made the first successful tests of the fifth-generation communications technology and promises that users will be able to use the 5G in 2020, according to Yonhap News.

According to the Samsung, with 5G, you can download a movie in less than a second, because the download speed will reach tens of gigabits per second (Gbps) compared to 75 megabits per second (Mbps), provided by the technology of the fourth generation LTE. What is the volume of the file is not specified.

According to the newspaper, Samsung made the first successful test platform 28 GHz band to transmit data at a speed of 1 gigabit per second. The company said that in order to transfer data between devices in real time using 64 antenna elements.

In the commercial operation of 5G will be launched in 2020. Many countries, particularly China and the European Union, are vying for the right to first introduce a new standard by investing heavily in the development of a new communications platform, so Samsung probably will not be alone in its initiative.