Standards bodies 3GPP and Apple have unveiled separate plans for 6G, with the former announcing it will begin developing various industry specifications and the latter reportedly advertising a job opening to design a reference architecture.
3GPP’s institutional partners ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, and TTC said they would begin planning for 6G specifications because such work will take several years to materialize.
The standards body said in a statement that work is underway on Release 18 and will soon begin developing Release 19 specifications, but these relate to 5G Advanced rather than Next Generation. said.
The group aims to provide the industry with a roadmap to develop products and services ahead of 6G availability around 2030.
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bloomberg Meanwhile, Apple is reportedly looking for a mobile “platform architect” to “drive and coordinate the design and modeling of the 6G reference architecture.”
In its ad, Apple reportedly detailed the need to work with other research and development teams within the company to develop a “reference architecture model” that would allow testing of potential technologies.
bloomberg Apple noted that it first posted 6G jobs in 2021.
iPhone vendors are reportedly developing their own 5G modems in an effort to break away from Qualcomm, but there is speculation that they are struggling to produce them in-house.
