November 2023 Brooklyn 6G Summit: 5G is still in kindergarten!
November 2023
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Written by Stefan Telal
Colin Wilcock, Chairman of the Board of the 5G Industry Association, thank you for the quote. This was probably the kickoff to his great 6G gathering. I was excited to once again be participating in the invitation-only Brooklyn 6G Summit (B6GS), hosted annually by Nokia and NYU Wireless, New York University’s Wireless Research Center. His 10th two-day B6GS will include his 50 speakers representing vendors, academia, communications service providers (CSPs), regulators, and experts from multiple industries from around the world. His 250 participants gathered from among them. The summit also featured over 20 of his 5.5G and 6G live demonstrations.
This year, the main topic was the current state of 5G. The potential of 5G is yet to be seen. Humans remain the overwhelming users of his 5G, rather than industry as envisioned as the main driver a decade ago. In other words, we are still at the top of the ITU triangle (Figure 1) and far from his future IMT.
The consensus is: “It’s too early to judge 5G. Let’s finish the work to deliver on its true promise of addressing Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) and Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC).” That’s what it means. With the 2018 B5GS, there were already opinions that the final form of 5G, which is an LTE-based technology, would be 6G.
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