Consider a future where the lines between the physical and digital fields are indistinguishable: a world where holographic representations attend team meetings and autonomous vehicles sail on the streets of the city guided by digital twins.
While the successor of the 5G wireless standard is still under development, the international community is negotiating regulatory standards which will open the way to its commercial deployment by the end of this decade.
Not all countries are as positive on 6G as China. An industrial report published in the Chinese journal Scientia Sinica Informationis last year noted that there were “differences still obvious in the attitudes of different countries and regions towards 6G”.
“European and American operators are not willing to develop 6G due to the 5G deployment,” said the report, which was written by the main players in the Chinese telecommunications sector.