6G technology

India’s own 5G network is in its final stages of development and the country is also parallelly participating in the development of 6G standards, minister for electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. “The country has also developed its own indigenously developed 4G core and radio network.

On November 6, 2020, China successfully launched an experimental test satellite with candidates for 6G technology into orbit, along with 12 other satellites, using a Long March 6 launch vehicle rocket.

When will 6G internet be available? 6G internet is expected to launch commercially in 2030 . The technology makes greater use of the distributed radio access network (RAN) and the terahertz (THz) spectrum to increase capacity, lower latency and improve spectrum sharing.

China is responsible for 40.3% of global 6G patent filings, followed by the U.S. with 35.2%. Japan with 9.9%, Europe with 8.9% and South Korea with 4.2% , according to a recent report by Nikkei.