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Japanese Providers Working With Leading Vendors on 6G Tests

NTT DoCoMo and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone said Monday they’re working with vendors Fujitsu, NEC and Nokia on experimental trials ahead of the eventual launch of commercial 6G. “Launching the envisioned 6G services will require verification of numerous new mobile…

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technologies, including those needed to newly use frequencies in the millimeter and sub-terahertz … bands, in addition to bands for existing 5G services,” the companies said. The trials will also test artificial intelligence-based wireless transmission methods. 6G will “greatly exceed the performance of 5G and simultaneously provide high-speed, large capacity, and low latency capabilities, use new high-frequency bands such as sub-terahertz bands above 100 GHz, expand communication coverage in the sky, at sea and in space, and enable both ultra-low-power consumption and low-cost communications,” they said. The companies predicted a 2030 time frame for 6G to start.