Race To 6G

In Telecommunications, 6G is the sixth generation standard currently under development for wireless communication technologies supporting cellular data networks. It is the planned successor to 5G and will likely be significantly faster, at speeds of approximately 95 Gbit/s. Currently, developed countries like USA, China and Japan are already experiencing the benefits of 5G to its fullest and even though most of the world is yet to experience the 5G technology; the geographical race for next generation is already heating up.

The Governments of USA and China and big companies like Samsung and Apple are already on the research. The first to develop the patent of 6G will be the biggest winner in the next industrial revolution. This research, which will be used to develop 6G, is Terahertz (THz) which is supposed to be 5 times faster than 5G. 

As of now, China is leading as it has sent 2 satellites since November 2020 in the orbit of the Earth to study THz. But USA might have a good chance to get the lead by implementing the same strategy.

Here are also some major pros and cons that we might experience with 6G. 

PROS

1. It is designed to support more mobile connections than 5G capacity, which means that instead of 5 devices, one might be able to connect up to 10 devices in the 5km radius. 
2. It offers very high data rate (Tb/sec) and very low latency (sub-ms). Therefore, many applications can make use of 6G wireless networks.

CONS

1. The towers which will be used for the coverage of 6G would be low as mostly the requirement will be of one small tower in every block making it difficult to provide this technology in remote areas.
2. By using the Terahertz frequencies for part of the communications, one can consider the drawbacks of this frequency as a part of the challenges that 6G might face.