- The North America Media Pack describes the next edition of the magazine including: the overarching theme, contributors to date in name order, and the ICT event[s] at which, because we are one of the official media partners, the magazine will be freely distributed.
Connect-World North America focuses on the leading ICT trends principally in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Past editions of the magazine have discussed important and relevant topics affecting the development of ICT within North America including: 5g technology and Innovation, mobile device connectivity, Cloud Computing. Fintech, Cybercrime, Internet of Things (IoT) and network capacity.
Theme: 5G in North America and prospects for 6G
North American 6G initiative publishes roadmap for technical leadership.
A working group designed to promote North American leadership in the nascent field of 6G
networks has published a roadmap for the industry, outlining six ‘audacious’ goals that can make its ambition a reality.
The development and deployment of 6G is viewed as a “trillion dollar opportunity” for the mobile industry, while technical leadership is increasingly a political priority for many governments around the world.
Research efforts are well under way in Europe, China, Japan and in North America in a bid to
become a leader not just in the development of 5G applications and services,
but also the technologies that will comprise global standards.
6G leadership in North America
With mobile connectivity increasingly important to society and the economy, any influence
on global standards is an increasingly viewed as desirable from a geopolitical
standpoint. The ‘Next G Alliance’ is an industry initiative comprising more than 80 organisations and
600 experts from industry, government and academia established last year and
the ‘Roadmap to 6G’ is the first significant result of its actives.
The publication describes the steps that all stakeholders must take to give North America the
best chance of technical leadership, along with a timeline that will promote coordinated research, commercialisation, and adoption strategies. Key priorities for the group include the advancement of trust, security, and resilience, an
enhanced digital world experience, cost efficiencies across the entire mobile infrastructure, distributed cloud and communications systems, an AI native future network and sustainability.
“This report will ensure North America proactively aligns all critical sectors vital to 6G
success to create a foundation for North American global leadership,” said
Susan Miller, president and CEO of ATIS, the industry body behind the Next G
Alliance. “Beyond its technical contributions, the Roadmap shows how 6G can
benefit society and industries in a variety of sectors – as well as how North
America will become an epicenter of innovation-driven economic growth in a new
era of wireless.”
Although it is too early to predict the final form the 6G standard will take and which
technologies will be included, there are some plausible assumptions about its
capabilities and the challenges that operators, manufacturers and researchers
face.
Naturally, 6G networks will deliver huge advances in speed, capacity, and low latency, while
it is also expected they will be much more intelligent and reliable. This will
deliver superior mobile broadband but also enable advanced services such as
truly immersive extended reality (XR), high-fidelity mobile holograms and
digital twins.
Central to these applications will be the ability of 6G to compensate for current constraints –
such as the limited processing capability of mobile devices – and the
integration of intelligence into the network.
If the most ambitious targets are met, then 6G will deliver 100 times the capacity of 5G
and will be able to support 10 million devices per square kilometre.
Signals would extend 10,000 metres above the surface, enabling ‘3D coverage’ in the skies,
space and underwater. All these capabilities would allow for intelligent
sensing, positioning, edge computing, and high-definition imaging.
Confirmed Contributors [name order]
- Alan Stewart-Brown, VP EMEA, Opengear
- John Denemark, SVP and GM, Neustar
- Declan Ganley, Founder,Rivada Space Networks
- Peg Hallberg, Head of Product & Software Engineering, Cologix
- David Nussbaum, Inventor and Founder, Proto Inc.
- Martha Suarez, President, Dynamic Spectrum Association (DSA)
- Author TBA, Infovista
- Author TBA, IQMetrix
- Author TBA, OCF Marketing & Communications Work Group
- Author TBA, IBM
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Job title breakdown | |
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USA Federal Government President of the United States (POTUS) Vice President of the United States President’s Cabinet Federal Regulators Federal Communications Commission (FCC) CTIA – The Wireless Association (CTIA) National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) State Government State Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Secretary of State Auditors Treasurer Commissioners Mexico President of Mexico Secretary of Communications IFT, Federal Telecommunications Institute Canada Prime Minister of Canada Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC | Chief Executive Officers Chief Financial Officers Chief Marketing Officers Chief Information Officers Chief Legal Officers Directors Finance Directors Regional Directors |
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