Challenges for 6G
1.
SoftBank outlines 12 challenges for 6G
Japanese giant has been pumping funds into 6G research for years
already, enabling it to identify already some of the key challenges
facing the communications networking and services sector ‘beyond
5G’. SoftBank stressed that in addition to enhancing the high-speed
connections, low latency and “massive device connectivity”
capabilities expected during the 5G era, 6G needs to enable high
reliability and much-improved energy efficiency.. Read
the full story.
2. What
is 6G? The NGMN Alliance offers some foundational ideas
20
April 2021: Ah, the question that has been uttered both in curiosity
and in exasperation during the past 12 months... sometimes expressed
as ‘What the **** is 6G?’ The new-look Next Generation Mobile
Network (NGMN) Alliance stepped in to help the industry get to grips
with the ‘next generation’ by releasing a white paper to provide an
outline of the debate around 6G. And it’s clear that plenty of
people want to know! Read
the full story.
3. US
and Japan team on Open RAN, 6G R&D
19
April 2021: Only weeks into his tenure, US President Joe Biden was
rubbing shoulders and cementing relationships with key partners, and
part of the mutual appreciation society formed by the US and Japan
involved some joint proclamations around telecoms R&D, with a
particular focus on 5G and two areas that are still nascent but
offer real potential – 6G and Open RAN. And big bucks were being
mentioned too – $4.5 billion in joint funding to figure out what
comes ‘beyond 5G.’ The announcement showed clearly that the US and
Japan are determined to provide the primary route to 6G and compete
hard with China in this regard, though of course Europe also has
aspirations to be the centre of 6G R&D, of which more shortly.... Read
the full story.
4.
Samsung’s mammoth investment plans include 5G/6G
Japan
is very clearly seeking to play a very prominent role in 6G, as it
has done in the preceding mobile generations, and so too is it’s
neighbour South Korea, courtesy of its progressive mobile operators
and of course its home-grown global technology giant, Samsung. And
this company is giant in every way... the company announced an
overall three-year investment plan worth more than US$200 billion,
with the focus in the telecoms sector on 5G and 6G. Next generation
chip developments are at the heart of Samsung’s focus: “As the 4th
industrial revolution is accelerating due to network technology
innovation such as AI and 5G/6G, semiconductors are emerging as a
core industry that influences the competitiveness of all industries
including automobiles beyond IT, and the competition for hegemony
between countries over semiconductors is getting fiercer,” noted
Samsung.
5.
Germany pumps €700 million into 6G R&D
There
might be plenty of activity underway in Asia-Pacific and North
America, but Europe isn’t sitting back and watching – there’s plenty
of activity across the region’s specialist university research
facilities (think of the 6G Flagship at Finland’s University of Oulu
and the work underway in the UK at the University of Surrey) and at
ETSI and the NGMN of course, while Germany is keen to be at the
heart of Europe’s 6G efforts. The country’s Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung,
or BMBF) allocated €700 million towards 6G R&D during the next five
years, with an initial aim of creating “the basis for an innovation
ecosystem for future communication technologies around
6G.” Germany’s Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek noted, “We
have to think about the day after tomorrow now and help shape new
key technologies and standards in communication technologies right
from the start.”
- Ray Le Maistre, Editorial Director, TelecomTV
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