The 6G: The Next Horizon White Paper presents a holistic view of our 6G vision, exploring 6G key capabilities, new use cases and requirements, new building blocks, and paradigm shifts in air interface and network architecture designs. In part 2 of this series, we look at the key drivers and technical pillars that will shape 6G.Underpinned by these drivers and pillars, 6G is expected to build on 4G and 5G, which respectively connected people and things, and achieve “connected intelligence”.Read the previous posts in the series here: 6G: The Next Horizon.Key driversIn the white paper, we outline three key drivers that are leading mobile communications toward a new era of connected intelligence.Driver 1: New applications and new businessEach mobile generation has been driven by the needs of certain typical applications. 1G was characterized by voice calls, 2G by text messaging, 3G by multimedia, 4G by bandwidth-hungry applications such as video streaming, and finally 5G by applications re...
