Amid rising 5G deployments, 6G questions begin
Exactly what is 6G and how will it differ from 5G?
When we created our Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity investment theme and index, we wanted to avoid one of the traps we observed others falling into by pinning them to solely to 5G. As we’ve joked with many before, before 5G there was 4G and before that 3G and so on. Even though 5G deployments are accelerating with implications across a number of new and existing applications that will continue to drive the what we at Tematica call the virtuous cycle of rising data consumption /creation, the seeds for 6G are being planted today and South Korea targets 2028 for the first 6G network.
So, what is 6G and how will if differ from 5G?
What new applications will it enable? How will it change education? Remote surgery? Immersive, 3-D virtual reality on phone calls? The Metaverse?
Let’s scratch the surface and find out what one of the next legs for our Digital Infrastructure & Connectivity theme and index is: