U.S. and China Already in an Arms Race for 6G Technologies
“Unlike 5G, North America will not let the opportunity for a generational leadership slide by so easily this time,” said Frost & Sullivan senior industry director of information and communications Vikrant Gandhi. “It is likely that the competition for 6G leadership will be fiercer than that for 5G.”
Canadian media has reported that China already “launched a satellite in November to test airwaves for potential 6G transmission, and Huawei has a 6G research center in Canada.” ZTE Corporation has also partnered with China Unicom Hong Kong to develop 6G technology.
In the U.S., the effort to “advance North American leadership in 6G” is spearheaded by the telecom standards developer Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), which launched the Next G Alliance in October. ATIS members include Apple, AT&T, Qualcomm, Google and Samsung Electronics — but not Huawei. In the European Union, Nokia is leading a 6G wireless project that includes Ericsson, Telefonica and universities.
Bloomberg reports that the fault lines created over 5G, centered around China’s Huawei Technologies and fears of “how 5G technology is being used by authoritarian regimes,” is very unlikely to change with the rise of 6G.
The capabilities of 6G include “a potential rate of 1 terabyte per second,” latency of 0.1 millisecond (compared to 1 millisecond for the minimum for 5G).
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