South Korea aims to become the first country to launch a 6G network in 2028. The plan is two years earlier than the original schedule as part of the country's bid to dominate the technology.
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India's Prime minister Narendra Modi has said that the Government of India has set up a task force to achieve the goal of launching 6G services in the country by the end of this decade.
LG has successful sent and received wireless 6G THz data over a 100-metre distance in an outdoor setting. The 6G spec will be standardised in 2025 and LG hopes its innovations will be included.
Ericsson has formed a partnership with MIT to begin work on hardware that will enable next-gen 5G and 6G networks. The partners did not provide a roadmap of when they expect to complete the work.
Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Cosmote have carried out successful trials on W-band technology to boost capacity on 5G networks. They said it will also help in next-generation 6G networks.
Today, LG announced that after months of rumors, it's officially shutting down its mobile phone business. It's still going to focus on mobility-related technologies such as 6G connectivity.
Nokia has become the head of an EU research project into 6G called Hexa-X. The firm said that it expects 6G to become commercially available to consumers in a decade around the year 2030.
China has begun working on 6G a couple of months earlier than anticipated. The development of 6G is still very early in the cycle and the plan is to launch it commercially in 2030.
China is looking ahead to 2030 where it envisions 6G network connectivity delivering speeds of up to 1Tbps. The country has already launched a concept study and wants to start R&D in 2020.
