Apple Joins Industry Group Working Towards 6G

[MacRumors]

As noted by CNET, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) this week announced that Apple has joined its Next G Alliance, an industry group working to "advance North American mobile technology leadership in 6G and beyond over the next decade, while building on the long-term evolution of 5G."

Apple is one of 11 new members of the group alongside Charter, Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Keysight Technologies, LG, Mavenir, MITRE, and VMware.

The announcement provides more details about the Next G Alliance:

Designed to set the foundation for a vibrant marketplace for North American innovation in future generations of mobile technology, the Next G Alliance is named after its primary goal: to establish North American preeminence in the 5G evolutionary path and 6G development. Its work will encompass the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardization and market readiness.

The Next G Alliance says it will be holding its first meeting for members on Monday, November 16 to set the initiative's overarching direction and strategy.

In September, AT&T said that it already has engineers working on next-generation 6G networking, but the technology is not expected to fully materialize for many years. Apple just released its first iPhones with support for 5G networks within the last month.

Article Link: Apple Joins Industry Group Working Towards 6G

 

[Rychiar]

as if 4G speeds weren't hard enough to come by

 

[TheBeverage]

“no”

 

[Andres Cantu]

So we’ve finally arrived at “Bieber 6G fever” haha anyone remember that commercial?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Leading by example!

 

[KB24Slam]

How about we get 5G mmWave fully available before starting on 6G...just a thought

 

[doboy]

Let’s fix 4G first

 

[RammyXX]

Faivchy-faivchy will soon be sixchy-sixchy!

 

[Mike MA]

If it wouldn’t be about the carriers still struggling with 4G/LTE coverage …

 

[benshive]

I don't even get anywhere near the speeds I was told to expect for LTE yet 😂

 

[Joseph C]

But 5G only JUST. GOT. REAL. 🧐

 

[dannyyankou]

I imagine the goal of 6G will be UW speeds, but everywhere

 

[swingerofbirch]

On which G will I stop having dropped calls at my house in a fairly well populated area?

 

[Braderunner]

Can we get 5G first?!

 

[cmaier]

Gotta make contributions to the FRAND patent universe...

 

[Jarman74]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of real-world applications should we expect from such a huge leap in network connectivity?

 

[Wags]

Okay, Who’s waiting for 6G. Lol.

 

[dannyyankou]

Let’s fix 4G first

Thank you! It’s embarrassing that there are still many areas that have no to weak 4G signal, especially rural America. Wireless infrastructure needs to be beefed up.

 

[EM2013]

5G: am I joke to you?

 

[Christian 5G]

I don’t want my username to be outdated already 😅

 

[IIGS User]

So, will there be a conspiracy theory about 6G when it comes out? Will it spread an STD? Or maybe high cholesterol?

Who knows. Knowing even the basics about RF propagation and frequency allocation, I really got a laugh out of the conspiracy theorists from just 9 months ago.

Sometimes I'm astounded by the idiocy of humanity.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

And there's my local town, struggling to get 4G...

 

[FaustsHausUK]

I really hope they don't focus on North America to the detriment of international interoperability. I'm English, I travel home to the UK once or twice a year under "normal" circumstances, and it was super useful to me when I could finally use my US mobile phone and data allowances on UK networks. Any regression there is stupid.

 

[Rocko99991]

I am waiting for 1000G.

 

[ghanwani]

I think I'll just hold out for 7G.