Are You Ready for 6G?

Earlier this month, Nokia announced that they’ve been made the project leader on Hexa-X-II, Europe’s flagship 6G project.

Following our work on the first Hexa-X project, we’re proud to announce that we have been made project leader on #Hexa-X-II – Europe’s flagship #6G project.

For more on how we are driving the future of global connection, read here: https://t.co/WLrfKhyS2x#innovation @BellLabs pic.twitter.com/N6uVJkbQmN

— Nokia (@nokia) October 7, 2022

“We’ve been honored to lead Europe’s flagship #6G project Hexa-X and are hugely excited about the second phase. Collaboration is critical to ensure #6G is sustainable, inclusive and trusted,” Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark tweeted.

We’ve been honored to lead Europe’s flagship #6G project Hexa-X and are hugely excited about the second phase. Collaboration is critical to ensure #6G is sustainable, inclusive and trusted. @nokia @EU_Commission https://t.co/uaHsSvjavY

— Pekka Lundmark (@PekkaLundmark) October 10, 2022

What is the Hexa-X-II project?

Read below:

The European Commission (EC) has today announced the creation of Hexa-X-II, the second phase of the European 6G flagship initiative. This new phase will expand the Hexa-X partner list to 44 organizations that are tasked with creating the pre-standardized platform and system view that will form the basis for many inputs into future 6G standardization.

The Hexa-X-II project has been awarded funding from the EC as part of the first call of the Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS-JU). This is the next significant step toward bringing together key stakeholders in Europe. The goal of both Hexa-X and Hexa-X-II is to establish Europe as leader in 6G.

Hexa-X-II represents the full value-chain for future connectivity solutions. Its members range from network vendors and communication service providers to verticals and technology providers, as well as the most prominent European communications research institutes.

Enabled by the outcomes of Hexa-X innovations, the Hexa-X-II consortium will strive to overcome the following societal challenges:

• Sustainability: Hexa-X-II will research technologies that contribute to a zero-carbon footprint and limit energy and material consumption
• Inclusion: Hexa-X-II aims to provide connectivity to people in developing countries as well as to the under-privileged members of developed societies
• Trustworthiness: Hexa-X-II will ensure data transparency, security and privacy, and network robustness

Nokia will be the project leader for Hexa-X-II, following its leadership of the first Hexa-X project.

The Hexa-X-II project aims to start work on 1 January 2023, with a planned duration of 2.5 years.

As stated on the Hexa-X website: “The Hexa-X vision is to connect human, physical, and digital worlds with a fabric of key 6G enablers.”

From Hexa-X:

2030 and beyond, Europe and the world will face opportunities and challenges of growth and sustainability of tremendous magnitude; proactively tackling the issues of green deal efficiency, digital inclusion and assurance of health and safety in a post-pandemic world will be key. A powerful vision is needed to connect the physical, digital, and human worlds, firmly anchored in future wireless technology and architectural research. The Hexa-X vision calls for an x-enabler fabric of connected intelligence, networks of networks, sustainability, global service coverage, extreme experience, and trustworthiness.

Wireless technologies are of critical relevance for our society and economy today; their importance for growth will continue to steadily increase with 5G and its evolution, enabling new ecosystems and services motivated by strongly growing traffic and trillions of devices. The ambition of the Hexa-X project includes developing key technology enablers in the areas of:

• fundamentally new radio access technologies at high frequencies and high-resolution localization and sensing;
• connected intelligence through AI-driven air interface and governance for future networks, and
• 6G architectural enablers for network disaggregation and dynamic dependability.

Recall what Pekka Lundmark said about 6G at a recent World Economic Forum meeting:

Smartphones will be built directly into our bodies by 2030.

World Economic Forum… Humans to be integrated with smartphone technology by 2030 using 6G… Nokia CEO confirms conspiracy theory is real pic.twitter.com/Zuy0CHtXju

— Pelham (@Resist_05) June 8, 2022

Shouldn’t we label him a conspiracy theorist?

No one can own the Metaverse: we need collaboration to build it. That’s @nokia’s view and the subject of my speech at the Brooklyn 6G Summit, which you can watch here https://t.co/quMOCRkS7b and read about here https://t.co/woTH0ZOzEU #B6GS pic.twitter.com/CwLvYEcEKl

— Pekka Lundmark (@PekkaLundmark) October 27, 2022

CEO de Nokia, Pekka Lundmark | Dice que los humanos serán implantados con chips 6G, establece el plazo para 2030
(2 videos) pic.twitter.com/N56OXhGpUa

— Terra cremada (@terra_cremada) October 25, 2022

In the #6G era, the digital and physical worlds will become far more integrated. @Nokia will lead also the 2nd phase of the European 6G flagship initiative, Hexa-X-II, funded by @EU_Commission https://t.co/3BnAGQHurw pic.twitter.com/bGqmszcmA2

— Ritva Siltanen (@rittis) October 28, 2022

Nokia's home page is already focused on 6G 😀 pic.twitter.com/nG82TdmiLs

— TechAltar – mas.to/@Techaltar 🇺🇦 (@TechAltar) July 14, 2022

Watch these clips to gather what Nokia plans with the development of 6G: