Disruptive6G

Collaboration by @disruptivedean & Charlotte Patrick advising on 6G developments, priorities & timelines. Helping mobile industry avoid repeating 5G’s mistakes.

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

New LI post:

I’m increasingly of the view that #6G needs to feature a broad mechanism and architecture for “extensions” or “plug-ins”, or ways to make or integrate with customised variants.

https://t.co/oKrVV7yokg

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Maybe a fragmentation of #6G standards wouldn't be such a bad thing after all?

It seems a plausible scenario - so why is everyone pretending it couldn't actually happen?

#6Greset #mobile #wireless

https://t.co/oTh6VXu57L

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

New article from my newsletter - why we need a #6Greset to avoid making the same mistakes in #6G that we saw with #5G

And yes, I've annotated & score the famous @ITU IMT2030 Wheel diagram as Refine / Review / Reset

https://t.co/Qc4B6lOHBX

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

And of course, they all have silly made-up names and dodgy avatars

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

I’m being followed by lots of bots. Easy to spot the current crop, which all have about 7.5K followed accounts and 90 followers

Blocking wherever I see them - I suggest everyone else does too

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

The mobile industry needs to deprioritise XR as a future #6G use-case

It risks the same mistakes as 5G, when ridiculous applications such as autonomous vehicles & robotic surgery distracted attention, R&D effort & policymakers

New newsletter article:

https://t.co/R8WI49PxiZ

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

It’s also useful for inventing non-existent MEC offload demand, and non-existent demands on core networks, slicing and all the other overinflated specwaffle

@ITU WP5D should rethink the IMT2030 / 6G framework with XR demoted to a secondary or speculative driver.

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

Looking at vendors’ & industry assocs’ work on #6G use cases, it’s very clear that XR /“Immersive” applications are taking on the same role as autonomous vehicles & robotic surgery for 5G

In short - nonsense to justify goldplating specs & inventing unnecessary spectrum demand

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Made it to Levi Summit for #6Gsymposium

Quite a trip - trains, two flights, buses & finally a ski gondola to get here!

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Back for day 2 of @6GWorld #6Gsymposium

First session is on standards

Interesting setup context slide, looking back at the 5G standards timeline

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

About to go on stage for my #IndoorWireless panel at #6Gsymposium

Panellists from @ericsson @Hexa_X_II @6Gflagship & University of Tokyo

As usual for events, these are my speed tests for cellular & WiFi in the auditorium

WiFi is symmetric 100Mbps
No 5G roaming, 4G @ 280/13Mbps

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Session at #6Gsymposium now on RIS especially for sub-THz

KAUST panellist suggesting mix of active & passive RIS

Issues I can see is getting power supply to the locations, plus any planning permission, any backhaul/control connectivity, regulatory needs etc

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Very quick list of some key points, learnings & conclusions from this week’s #6Gsymposium in Finland

Also: it’s not obvious that legacy MNOs will be the key drivers for 6G. Just one group of stakeholders among many

https://t.co/mW7zTJWYIi

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Quick initial read of the @ETSI_STANDARDS doc about the potential use-cases for THz wireless for 6G and sensing

I’ll be at the @6GWorld #6Gsymposium next week in Finland

https://t.co/swVIQTLh8L

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

I’ve written a post & slide-deck on #6G regulatory issues

IMO there’s a lot of things that policymakers and regulators need to start thinking about *now*

And no, not just spectrum. It’s competition, planning, policy & much more

Contact me for more info

https://t.co/hva1aPvXfO

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

#6G is coming, even if it's still only on the horizon

But what should regulators start to think about in advance?

Hint: it's not just about #spectrum
- Metrics
- Indoors
- Infra-sharing
- Role of MNOs in 2030+
- Competition
- New tech like AI & sensing

https://t.co/IDLrGmOSKb

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

Listening in to the first session of the European @Hexa_X_II #6G workshop series this morning

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

Maybe #6G isn’t going to be adopted first by MNOs?

Some are saying they’d rather be thinking about 2032 rather than 2030ish

Perhaps it will be driven initially by other market participants like infracos & enterprises?

https://t.co/qLDYD6KedB

[Dean Bubley @disruptivedean]

I'm going to be listening virtually today's @NIST #6G Core Networks Workshop today

Curious to see where things lie & what the priorities / new stuff will be, rather than the usual focus on the RAN

I'm rather hoping that 6G will have a core-free / naked-radio option by design

[Disruptive6G @Disruptive6G]

LinkedIn post about the risks of optimising for local minima in technology, rather than considering wide system-level issues

Highly relevant for spectrum policy, AI-native networks and disaggregated infrastructure

https://t.co/OeDxgLJeyn