Mobile Magazine March 2022 | Page 101

6G Programme Manager at Keysight Technologies applications that were supposed to define 5G are built on immersive video calling , vehicleto-vehicle communications , remote surgery , and precision remote control robotics . Already , the sheer volume and complexity of data being transmitted to make even earlystage iterations of this work are bumping up against the limitations of 5G - even at the high-band mmWave end of the spectrum .

“ Take extended reality as an example — mainstream adoption requires the technology to facilitate both augmented and virtual reality , as well as piece the experiences together in real time . 5G ’ s network technology is simply too slow to do that ,”

Every comprehensive 6G whitepaper I have seen contains at least one reference to the use of 6G in “ Smart Cities ” as one of the benefits to society .

This is another case of 6G appearing to be “ 5G but better ” since reference to use in “ Smart Cities ” is something that is shared by 6G whitepapers and their decade-older 5G equivalents .

The best way to summarise the difference is that 5G means enabling the scale for Smart-City sensors and systems to communicate in ways to improve daily life , while 6G adds native AI-enabled and distributed computation , so information from these sensors and data can be used in more beneficial ways .