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Natalia Orrego Tapia, Senior Research Associate in Environmental Sustainability and Future Networks, ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol

In the race to roll out 6G, the UK and Europe are caught between technology’s superpowers

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Even as the rollout of the 5G network continues around the world, the race to design and build the sixth generation of mobile infrastructure has begun.

The new, global 6G network represents a fundamental shift in what a mobile network is built to do. Where previous generations were designed primarily as pipelines for transporting data between devices, 6G’s ambition is to treat the network as an intelligent system.

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