SoftBank, Nokia unite on AI RAN, 6G
“We’re Seeing a Broadening of the Customer Base” – Virginia Diodes Interview

6GWorld talks to Cliff Rowland at Virginia Diodes about how he sees the market changing: New demands, new types of clients, geographical variations.
Full Duplex, XR and ATSC 3.0 in FCC 6G Working Group’s Horizon

The FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) met in the last week of August to update its progress. While some topics the TAC’s 6G working group raised showed an industry trend, others sounded like creative approaches. Among the most recurring themes was video, which has been regarded as a strong 6G use case since the beginning. […]
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Great and Terrible for Security

A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a survey looking at the physical layer security challenges and strength of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces [RIS] in 6G. 5G, and moreso 6G, are expected to respond to a wide variety of different requirements from simple IoT to high-capacity communications, joint sensing and comms, and more. With the cost […]
Good News – Growth For A Telco! Might Be Bad News For Some, Though…

Readers will be familiar with the technology journeys which many researchers and vendors are setting out upon, and at least as familiar with the troubled financial circumstances of many telcos. When growth is difficult at best, it’s hard to expect serious operator investment into new network capabilities, whether that’s moving past 5G, or MEC, or […]