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It’s true: the rollout of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks has yet to be completed across the world.
Yet 6G (sixth-generation) is upon us, with major changes expected on both user-end and telecommunications carriers. 6G is touted as "at least 100 times faster” than the current 5G networks.
Some industry experts even claim 6G will "up to 500 times faster" than the latest mobile data networks, with “almost-zero” latency (delay). Research and standards-setting are advancing fast.
The Chinese, meanwhile, have tested 6G connectivity to a trial satellite using Terahertz waves that could send data at lightning speeds. US companies like Intel and Apple are not far behind, and so are the Europeans. There's a patent rush for 6G-related innovations.
Ericsson, in a paper, claims 6G is already “in the applied phase”.
“We expect work on 6G standardisation requirements to start as early as 2024, and exact technical specifications to be worked out in standardisation starting 2025,” Patrik Persson, Ericsson’s 6G programme director wrote last month.
At this year's edition of Mobile World Conference (MWC), an annual trade event dedicated to mobile communications, held in Barcelona from Feruary 27 to March 2, 2023, 6G was the talk of the show.
1) First, the numbers: By 2030, some 500 billion digital devices will be connected — or about 59 times the global population. That’s a lot of devices that need to be connected. Existing networks would grind to a halt if it does not improve in lockstep this explosion.
(2) Need for high-speed, low-latency networks: With theoretical speeds of up to 1 Tbps — approximately 100 times faster than 5G — 6G is anticipated to have substantially faster speeds. That’s due to their ability to operate at higher frequencies.
(3) Need for inclusion: 6G rollout is seen accelerating the “digital inclusion” on a global scale. Thus access to high-end services for socially-important institutions such as schools and hospitals, even in areas that are hard to reach today, will become accessible.
No one needs to move. Not now, not ever. But that's not to say plans already afoot for the next-generation network will come to nothing. It's an entirely new type of internet.
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