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The 6G hype has started

CAMBRIDGE, UK — As if the nascent 5G communications market isn’t creating enough overheated expectations already, now U.K. tech research firm IDTechEx is asking you to start getting excited about 6G. In an email received by Cartt.ca today, IDTechEx is promoting its new report 6G Communications Market, Devices, Materials 2021-2041 with the claim that the 6G communications market is a trillion-dollar opportunity and the industry needs to plan for widespread deployment around 2030. Topics covered in the report include “Terahertz, intelligent reprogrammable surfaces, HEMT, WIET, FSO, fronthaul, backhaul, solar drones, solar airships, LEO satellites, battery elimination, energy harvesting, metamaterials, metasurfaces,...