Think 5G Is a Buzzword? China Is Already Working on 6G Technology

china kicks off 6G technology research and development

While most of us are nonetheless pondering over 5G being an overused 'buzzword' to sell more future-ready (read as pricey) devices to users, People's republic of china has already started research and development of 6G technology. We are still cribbing over our Jio or Vodafone 4G SIMs offering pathetic connectivity and download speeds.

Yeah, we are not kidding. Communist china's authorities ministry and research institutes held a "kick-off" coming together on sixth November to plant a national 6G engineering science R&D grouping, mere days afterward the official rollout of 5G networks. It has announced the germination of two teams to oversee research and development of this side by side-gen telecom engineering science.

The first group consists of government departments that will help bring 6G revolution, pushing forrad the execution of this telecom technology. The 2d group, which is comprised of 37 experts from universities, science institutions, and major corporations will advise the authorities on of import 6G-related decisions.

The 5th-generation wireless network technology is still in the nascent stages, with limited availability but the technology world is pinning its hope on 5G technology for a far superior and latency-gratis experience – not only on our smartphone but VR devices, game streaming platforms, self-driving cars, and other IoT applications.

5G networks are said to provide data speeds at least 20 times faster than 4G and we expect next-gen 6G engineering and enquiry to target speeds upwardly to 1 Tbps (terabytes per second), which would be totally cool with me. You lot would be able to download any movie, game or enter a VR world at the touch of a push button.

The race to roll out 5G wireless networks has picked up the pace, of recent, with Mainland china and U.S going afterward each other and engaging in a trade war. Huawei (who is the earth'southward biggest telecom equipment vendor) and many other Chinese tech giants take suffered at the easily of the U.Due south. We nonetheless wait the auction of 5G frequencies (expected in early 2020) and then, we could see Jio and Airtel blitz to upgrade their network and provide 5G connectivity to netizens as a pilot test side by side yr.