‘The very rapid development of AI/ML will also have a profound impact on the 6G design’: AI will be responsible for both creating more network traffic and strengthening network performance

An Ericsson image visualizing 6G.

Your next phone upgrade may not be about faster download speeds or crisper video streaming, but whether those networks can handle billions of intelligent agents and systems making decisions for you.

For decades, new generations of mobile technologies have helped to reshape not just connectivity, but how we go about our daily lives. 3G popularized smartphones and made mobile internet mainstream. 4G brought about apps, enabling everything from mobile banking to video streaming. 5G then expanded connectivity into factories, vehicles, sensors and other industrial systems beyond the humble smartphone.