Research and development efforts around the world are already honing in on what will constitute future 6G systems, from candidate spectrum bands to potential capabilities such as joint communications and sensing, and intelligent reconfigurable surfaces.
6G is also expected to herald a massive increase in usage, as Chris Sambar, EVP of technology at AT&T, said during remarks at the Brooklyn 6G Summit today. “We’ve been told it should enable up to 10x increase in usage on the networks,” he noted—which is not unrealistic for the wireless network alone, considering that overall network backbone traffic for wireless and wireline has increased about that much compared to 10 years ago.
