With 5G networks still rolling out across the globe and many areas of the world still using 4G and even 3G networks, it seems a bit early to use the term 6G. After all, what good are 6G networks if relatively few people can use a 5G network?
6G Networks (A NEW Era of Technology)
That said, technology is always advancing and standards take a long time to mature, so we’ve always been headed towards a 6G world. The idea of 6G so early in the development of 5G just shows how quickly this technology is advancing. We’ve managed to go from 1G to 5G in such a relatively short time, so 6G is just the natural progression towards faster and better wireless connectivity.
6G makes sense as a successor to 5G, but maybe one day we’ll stop using numbers and names and just say we’re connected. Eventually, whether it’s 6G, 7G, or some other “G,” we’ll have such incredibly fast speeds that there won’t be any progress bars or wait times for a normal amount of data, at least by today’s standards. Everything will just be available… instantly, and we won’t have to come up with new terms to describe it.
It’s common for a new mobile network standard to break into the spotlight about once every decade or so. That means we could see 6G networks rolling out sometime around 2030 (or even a bit earlier in Asia and other 5G-first regions), or at least that’s when most telecoms will be running trials and we’ll see phone makers offering 6G-capable phones.
