49 already laying out the technologies that will power the sixth generation of wireless communications technologies . Samsung , for instance , released a 6G white paper , with Sunghyun Choi , the company ’ s Head of the Advanced Communications Research Center , saying : “ While 5G commercialization is still in its initial stage , it ’ s never too early to start preparing for 6G because it typically takes around 10 years from the start of research to commercialisation of a new generation of communications technology .”
Samsung expects 6G to be commercialisable even as early as 2028 , with potential features being a peak data rate of 1 terabit per second ( 50 times 5G ) and air latency of less than 100 microseconds ( a tenth of 5G latency ). Despite the controversy that 5G is currently causing , then , telecommunications standards are marching on - to the benefit of us all .
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