Tldr? Why do we need 6g anyway? What is the benefit supposed to be? Not higher transfer speeds I hope. We need modes with better support for low power and weak signals. For low power, 2G is superior to everything that came after it.

This article is from 2023.

I don't have any G's where I live. Could we maybe just try to get everyone/everywhere at least basic coverage first?

most consumers data plan isn't even allowed to reach 4G speeds, at least where I live in europe. the only "advantage" of 5G is more capacity for smartshit, and internet connected cars that upload live video footage from their like 4 cameras everywhere they go like a mobile surveillance station.

Please god let europe and the asian countries pick the chinese standard and leave the US sitting on its own it would be so fucking funny.

6G works in Europe and Asia. We barely have consistent 5g in the US and are looking to go back to dial up.

I still don't have 5G in my area.

National dominance of technology is bad for people, because Sovereigns want control and slavery over people. People benefit from cheap tech advance access, without any trickle down from the nationality of who profits.

5g equipment is all made in China, regardless of parent company ownership. There is no, afaik, extra surveillance powers compared to 4g equipment. Much of the speed/latency boosts of 5g futurism applications remains unpenetrated. I don't know of a 6g benefit that 5g didn't promise.

Instead of pretending that national security is for benefit of national subjects, communications protocols should focus on end to end encryption with supporting hardware, and include middleware encryption/decryption to add controlled layers to protect privacy additionally from rival intelligence interests.

In the end, consumers need to trust google or apple to some level, but open source, and different open source applications on top of the OS.

This outcome is impossible when CIA and other intelligence agencies are part of the standards process influence, but technical only protocols that ignore the oppression by default political context, support the oppression by default standards process.

No one has full 5G yet, not our problem

Welp, it was fun while it lasted...

Now all international travelers will have to go back to the early 00s method of buying burner phones and calling cards to be able to make a call.

No! It'll start a new pandemic!!!! /s

6G already wtf? Are we gonna have to perfectly align our phones with the cell towers then and get 0 connectivity if we’re off by a degree or two?

Also love this snippet:

To serve faster and more precisely, 6G will use more radio frequency bandwidth, require specialized computer chips and employ artificial intelligence.

This kinda reads like they’re gonna AI generate data as we download things. Like frame generation but for packets.