Excluding China from 6G standard development risks fragmentation
Excluding China from 6G standard development risks fragmentation
As the latest 5G standard, Release 18 (R18), is set to be officially frozen by the global mobile communication standards organization 3GPP in March 2024, it can be expected that 5G-Advanced will enter commercial use. Although 3GPP has repeatedly emphasized that the current focus is still on realizin...
Fail to compete with China on innovation, just ban them on nation security!🥵
read up on Volt Typhoon and then tell me you want western countries outfitted with PRC infrastructure
I don't want western countries outfitted with NSA/FBI/CIA infrastructure but here we are lol
China: makes 5g infara and full set of bands for compliant phones
USA: Bans Chinese phones
USA: Makes half assed 5g infara so the megacorp ISPs can market the crap out of it
USA: Sells incomplete 5g band phones with horrendous compliancy and support for 5g towers
USA: "why would China do dis? We must ban them from 6g!"
It's pretty hilarious how the west keeps walling themselves off from the rest of the world.
It's nice that we finally have a global standard that works everywhere so when you're abroad you don't need to buy a local cellphone anymore. If it fragments again, many countries in asia and africa might go with chinese 6g for cost reason and fragment the world again.