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  • 6G Appears To Be A Nervous Mess

    From Telecom Digest Moderator@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 21 16:26:07 2025
    https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/20/after-5g-was-idiotically-overhyped-and-fell-flat-6g-appears-to-be-a-nervous-mess/


    We’ve long noted how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S.
    mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and
    lower latency networks, it’s more of an evolution than a revolution.

    But that’s not what telecom giants like Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T
    promised. Both routinely promised that 5G would change the way we live
    and work, usher forth the smart cities of tomorrow, and even
    revolutionize the way we treat cancer.

    ...

    For a while there, there was an effort to get all U.S. wireless on one
    unified standard. But with increasing international hostilities and less
    U.S. government coherence, there are growing concerns that 6G could
    actually split into two completely different 6G standards in use by the
    U.S. and China. On the plus side, the fractured disagreements on what 6G
    should look like means at the very least, we’ll be spared the same kind
    of mindless hype that plagued 5G. Maybe.

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  • From extra extra@21:1/5 to Telecom Digest Moderator on Mon Apr 14 15:25:48 2025
    On 2025-02-21, Telecom Digest Moderator <[email protected]> wrote:
    https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/20/after-5g-was-idiotically-overhyped-and-fell-flat-6g-appears-to-be-a-nervous-mess/


    We’ve long noted how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S.
    mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and
    lower latency networks, it’s more of an evolution than a revolution.

    But that’s not what telecom giants like Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T promised. Both routinely promised that 5G would change the way we live
    and work, usher forth the smart cities of tomorrow, and even
    revolutionize the way we treat cancer.

    ...

    For a while there, there was an effort to get all U.S. wireless on one unified standard. But with increasing international hostilities and less
    U.S. government coherence, there are growing concerns that 6G could
    actually split into two completely different 6G standards in use by the
    U.S. and China. On the plus side, the fractured disagreements on what 6G should look like means at the very least, we’ll be spared the same kind
    of mindless hype that plagued 5G. Maybe.


    Wow, I remember when 5G was rolling around that it was going to be exactly that - a virtually zero latency technology that was going to be used to perform complex surgeries remotely, amongst other fascinating claims. Apparently these surgeries have happened in very controlled environments, but it's a far cry from what was being touted.

    I'm still waiting for 5G coverage to actually match the coverage maps.

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