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Shaping 6G's Future

The roll-out of 5G systems continues to expand successfully
around the globe with currently hundreds of networks being
operational worldwide. The journey of 5G evolution will definitely
continue for many years to come with innovations coming as
evolutionary steps under the umbrella of “5G Advanced”. This will
comprise solutions to enhance coverage, user experience, expand
beyond connectivity and operational excellence.

Keeping up with the tradition of a new generation of cellular system
once every ten years or so, there is an expectation that a 6G system
will be standardized with deployments starting around 2030. Since
it often takes more than ten years for a novel technology to see the
commercial daylight, Research on novel technology components
for 6G is underway.

Nokia believes that in the 6G era, the
digital, physical and human (biological)

worlds will become far more integrated.
Moving beyond voice, video and data
communications, future applications in
the 6G-era will benefit from distributed
compute services, intelligence, and
analytics capabilities, as well as sensing,
spatial and temporal services ...

Dr. Brahim GHRIBI Looking at the history of cellular networks in the past few decades:
Head of Government Affairs MEA 2G/3G played a key role in unleashing the potential of human
Nokia connections and mobility. 4G, on the other hand played a key role
to bring information and social interaction to the forefront of our
daily lives. With 5G, the emphasis is not only on enhanced mobile
Broadband, but also on the potential of connecting machines and
sensors and digital transformation of the vertical industries.

Nokia believes that in the 6G era, the digital, physical and human
(biological) worlds will become far more integrated. Moving
beyond voice, video and data communications, future applications
in the 6G-era will benefit from distributed compute services,
intelligence, and analytics capabilities, as well as sensing, spatial
and temporal services for the precise localization of people and
objects within their environments and the synchronization of their
actions. Novel use case families for communications in the 2030s
will include, among others, immersive telepresence, massive
twinning, collaborating robots as well as trusted and specialized
6G subnetworks.

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