News 6G tests reach a blisteringly quick 938 Gb/s transmission rate, 5000X faster than 5G

[Admin]

Researchers have successfully achieved one of the fastest 6G bandwidth tests so far using radio-waves and light-based communication.

6G tests reach a blisteringly quick 938 Gb/s transmission rate, 5000X faster than 5G : Read more

 

[das_stig]

I bet all the comms kit manufacturers are looking forward to the hardware refresh profits and mobile service suppliers are wetting themselves at the thought of taking customers from your traditional ISP if 6G takes off with those types of speeds for cable free consumer connections and of course the prices they can charge.

 

[bill001g]

What some research paper says means little when the mobile providers will just put a sticker that says 6G on their current products and pretend it is something new. This is exactly what they did with 5G. What was actually 5G was mostly meant to be a fixed solution to the home. There were a handful a sites deployed getting close to 15 years ago. You saw lots of test of gigabit speed in say new york city. The problem was the frequencies used were too high to penetrate the walls of houses so you needed outdoor antenna and they did not go very far. Never really went anywhere until the vendors renamed what had been called LTE advanced 5G. It is a fairly small upgrade over what had been called 4G-LTE. This is nothing new it took quite a while for the end cosumer to learn that 4G and 4G-LTE where very different since they did the same renaming trick on the 3G stuff.

 

[Syntaximus]

I'll believe it when I see it, 5G has been a complete sham in my experience (AT&T).
4G LTE is often faster and takes less of a hit on battery as well.

 

[jp7189]

Direct line of sight lasers. This can only be used for fixed backhaul connections, not for consumer handhets

 

[bill001g]

Direct line of sight lasers. This can only be used for fixed backhaul connections, not for consumer handhets

It doesn't use the laser directly it uses the laser to generate very precise radio signals. In some ways it might be better to use the lasers.

It is going to be much worse than the 40ghz verizon 5G systems which have extremely short range and no ability to pass through the walls of houses. They are talking about 150ghz which is going to be much worse. A foggy day will block most the signal. No way this is going to work with portable devices.