6G doesn’t exist yet, but it’s already being used.
As we advanced on Sunday at ARA, this MWC is the congress of 5G and even of the 5G Advanced variant (Huawei calls it 5.5G), which will arrive in two or three years. However, companies in the industry are already working on the future 6G by creating technologies in the hope that some will be incorporated into the standard and generate revenue for them in the form of patents. Both Ericsson and the aforementioned Huawei show in their fortified MWC booths the fledgling applications and benefits of their 6G aspirants. And the Japanese operator DoCoMo gives public demonstrations of its network, with a sensorized human percussionist (Catalan) who plays the drums and with the movement of his arms and legs generates electrical impulses that are transmitted to a colleague who reproduces exactly the same gestures .