South Korea: Mobile providers promise uniform minimum data rate of 400 kbit/s.

2026-04-11 17:46 UTC

They will no will no longer throttle mobile internet to unusable speeds after data allowances are exhausted, so it is kind of a “minimum universal connection” via mobile.

Replies (7)

@ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-11 18:34

IDK, 400kbit/s is pretty close to unusable these days...

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@Korkki@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 18:31

400kbit/s is still kinda shitty

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@ultimus@retrofed.com 2026-04-12 13:25

its enough for watching 480p content and surfing internet

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@deleted@lemmy.world 2026-04-11 20:58

I do have similar thing with my plan after consuming all plan data but the speed is 512k. It’s good for text messages, using banking apps, browsing lemmy (world news and subs focuses on text). It’s not blazing fast nor slow to hell. 2-10 seconds to perform an action which is acceptable imo.

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@themurphy@lemmy.ml 2026-04-11 19:18

Might be low, but it's still access to the internet. Seems like a great move.

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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-11 19:28

They should do this everywhere, but the speed should be a bit higher. Like if you’re on a cheap unlimited plan and you get deprioritized, it shouldn’t go lower than 5Mbit. The whales paying for priority can still get 50+Mbit or whatever, but they shouldn’t be given 100+ or 200+ so everyone else gets unusable speeds. Adjust the numbers to make it make more sense.

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@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2026-04-11 20:14

That much? Wow how generous of the corporate overlords.

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