This week kicks off one of the most important events of the year for the mobile industry — Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (MWC22). The focus this year is on 5G Advanced, which starts the second phase of the 5G decade and will bring to the world a new wave of wireless innovations. Today, we are at the starting line of this evolution as the work for 5G Advanced Release 18 is expected to begin shortly.
To prepare, we have been conducting research in many areas of wireless, and we believe this work will ultimately bring us another step closer to 6G by the end of this decade. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through 10 key wireless innovation areas that will fuel the 5G Advanced evolution toward 6G — five in the area of foundational air interface enhancements and five in 5G expansion into new applications and verticals. At the same time, I will also provide a short preview of our MWC22 technology demonstrations in each area. You can also see them in action at MWC22 YouTube playlist. Read the full blog post here.