5G, the “G” too many? In telecoms, the debate is growing on the pace of innovation

2024-01-05 08:21:20

Published on Jan 5, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.Updated Jan 5, 2024 at 9:21 a.m.

It is a radical position, certainly still in the minority, but which is growing in telecoms, two months before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​the sector’s global meeting. While preparation work for 6G, which is expected to arrive around 2030, has already begun in Europe and the rest of the world, some voices in telecoms are beginning to openly question the need for a new generation of mobile network every ten years. years.

Because since the invention of GSM in 1982, the historic support for 2G, the mobile industry has always worked this way, with one change in technology per decade. After 2G and the very first mobile phones with antenna, 3G, at the beginning of the 2000s, then enabled the growth of SMS. But it was with 4G, around 2010, that the real revolution arrived.

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