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Re: 6G Appears To Be A Nervous Mess

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On 2025-02-21, Telecom Digest Moderator <digest-replies@telecom-digest.org> wrote:
> https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/20/after-5g-was-idiotically-overhyped-and-fell-flat-6g-appears-to-be-a-nervous-mess/
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> 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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