2023-03-04
Courtesy of Technocracy News and Trends, this is a perhaps long overdue exploration of the nature of 5G and how 6G may have to perform in order to take a market position that justifies its expense.
6G is supposedly 100GHz and higher - yet 5G mostly remains below 6GHz as currently rolled out, although the specified range is up to 100GHz - and bear in mind that domestic wi-fi routers today work at the 2.4GHz and 5GHz ranges.
So 5G mobile telephony isn't currently much of a leap forward, although it does require many more base stations down your street for the higher wavebands (in the tens of GHz ranges) not yet copiously rolled out.
The power requirements for 6G will also be an order of magnitude higher than the current 5G as rolled out today - the higher the carrier frequency, the greater the power transmitted (and the more careful of safety concerns we need to be - not that anybody "in charge" seems to have paid any attention to safety matters so far).
