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How fast will 6G be, and what use cases will it enable?

Peak theoretical data rates for 5G, as defined by the ITU's IMT-2020 requirements, are up to 20Gbps down and up to 10Gbps up, with 'user experienced' rates coming in at 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up, latencies between 1 millisecond (URLLC) and 4ms (eMBB), and connection densities up to a million devices per square kilometer (mMTC).

Although the requirements for 6G (IMT-2030) are yet to be finalized, theoretical downlink data rates could go as high as one terabit per second (1Tbps, or 1000Gbps), with latency measured in microseconds. If 6G gets anywhere near these numbers in practice, it will enable a much wider and more performant range of use cases than 5G.