The race to faster wireless speeds isn’t just so you can download The Queen’s Gambit in seconds on your phone instead of in minutes. It also will improve a country’s security and economic well being. And that is why some U.S. officials are not happy to hear that China is taking the first steps toward developing and creating a 6G wireless network. According to the NY Post, a satellite named “Star Era-12” has quietly been shot into space which is the only place where its super high-frequencies can be tested. Thyagarajan Nandagopal of the National Science Foundation (NSF) told the Post that the high bands deployed by the satellite get lost easily in the air. Nandagopal also said that he estimates that the satellite can achieve download data speeds ranging from 100 to 500 Gbps. For the mobile naive, that range is more than 100 times faster than 5G which itself is up to 100 times faster than 4G; in other words, 6G connectivity will be wicked fast.
Professor Tommaso Melodia, who heads Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, says that 6G will allow a phone to download a high-res version of a movie in only 8 seconds and 1,500 high-def photos in less than a minute. 6G, he notes, will also improve health care as it will allow a surgeon based in New York to control a robot performing an operation on a patient lying on an operating room table in California. Melodia says that the U.S. isn’t too late to join the 6G race and NSF’s Nandagopal says that the U.S.government shouldn’t be wringing its hands over China’s apparent lead in 6G. Still, Professor Melodia fears that the U.S. has been distracted by other technologies and shouldn’t lose its focus on communications. He says, “My honest impression is that we got excited with other things like artificial intelligence and software advances like the Cloud. We took wireless as a given and now realize because of the pandemic that our entire economy depends on communications research. We can’t take it for granted — China hasn’t.”
ICYMI: China launched the world’s first 6G satellite into orbit, to test the technology which could be more than 100 times faster than 5G, according to CGTN, China’s state-owned media pic.twitter.com/l2FMSVcKDI
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 14, 2020
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