The ‘next generation’ waiting around the corner.
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Hundreds of millions to be poured into new upgrades.

FOUNDATIONS FOR 6G

Australia’s 5G network is getting an overhaul by artificial intelligence, as Telstra lays the groundwork for a future 6G network at the turn of the decade.

Armed with a four-year plan and $800 million to spend, Telstra is “upgrading the brain” within every one of its existing mobile towers spread across the country.

“We’re going to make our 5G network the most advanced and the most resilient in the country,” said Channa Seneviratne, who is a ‘Technology Engagement Advancement Executive’ (whatever that means) at Telstra.

“You’ll see robots talking to other robots and vehicles talking to wearables. It’s going to be massive.”

The telco claims speeds will improve first, and soon after, artificial intelligence will follow, which will help Telstra “predict and improve connections for customers” when they need it. More importantly, it will “lay the foundation for the arrival of 6G”.

“Just like 4G got better over time, 5G will get better, faster, more efficient. So, we can expect better things from the existing networks as it prepares for what’s to come.” technology expert Trevor Long said.

A 6G network isn’t expected to be rolled out until about 2030 (there it is again), but despite this, is already being discussed by the telco industry and universities across the world.

The largest number of 6G patents have been filed in China, where recent academic publications have been conceptualising 6G and “new features” that may be included.

Artificial intelligence is included in many predictions, from 6G supporting AI infrastructure, to AI “designing and optimising 6G architectures and operations.”

On 6 November 2020, China launched a Long March 6rocket with a payload of thirteen satellites into orbit. One of the satellites reportedly served as an experimental testbed for 6G technology, which was described as “the world’s first 6G satellite.”

Last year, Australia has joined most of its Five Eyes partners in a new alliance to ‘diversify telecommunications supply chains’ and ‘coordinate the roll out of 6G networks’, after national security fears limited the build of 5G infrastructure.

Announced by the U.K government, the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) includes the U.K, Australia, U.S, Canada and Japan, with representatives from respective infrastructure and communications department to meet twice a year.

The 21^st Century has seen a rapid ‘advancement’ of technological capabilities, with 5G only being rolled out in 2019/2020. In just half a decade time, they say 6G will arrive.

Australians are still coming to grips with the rollout of 5G technology across our country.

A rollout that was allowed to expand rapidly during COVID-19 lockdowns.

THE RISE OF 5G

TOTT News has warning about Australia’s 5G rollout before it eventuated, as the next-generation technology was pushed to a swift expansion in 2020.

Ironically, this aligned perfectly with the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’, as lockdowns were used to roll out towers while everyone stayed put inside of their houses.

Many conspiracies circulated at the time that sickness effects could potentially be the turning on of this network, which TOTT News didn’t subscribe too (we called it a hoax from the start), but many did explore.

This forced Australia’s telecommunications provider to deny the claims publicly, but in doing so, they admitted there was no established health effects — rather than just dismissing the notion that the ‘virus’ was because of the network.

Even if 5G wasn’t the cause of a hoax virus, that still doesn’t mean the technology doesn’t have health effects. ARPANSA shot themselves in the foot with the claim.

For you see, in just the few years that have passed since the rollout, many groups have campaigned to reveal the truth behind so-called ‘safety standards’, including using a non-human dummy for exposure testing.

New movement exposes 5G ‘safety standards’, calls for boycott

Many articles, including one in the Scientific American publication, have questioned just why the ‘experts’ should be trusted when it comes to the safety surrounding this technology.

Just recently, researchers have found that residents in rural regions are exposed to higher levels of 5G radiation during active mobile phone use then to those in dense cities, in a first-of-its-kind study.

What can we expect with AI-enhanced 6G technology down the pipeline?

Many protests occurred across Australia in resistance to the rollout of 5G, as covered here on the website, including tense battles in regions over installations of towers.

Protesters form blockade against 5G installation, arrests made

Some regions successfully blocked the installation of future towers, including in the Lathlain and Currumbin Valley areas, after campaigning at the local level.

More 5G tower victories across Australia

But these types of stories are very few-and-far-between.

In 2022, after the conclusion of 5G mmWave auctions, the technology was finally ready to reach full power, after previously operating on the backend of 4GX.

Australia’s 5G network now ready to ‘reach full potential’

Now, many cities, public spaces, football stadiums, hospitals, libraries.. even garbage trucks.. are all being equipped the technology, and the public has embraced it on new smart phones.

Concerns are not just surrounding health, either.

5G is the power of the smart city dystopia that is taking over Australia, and is helping to power artificial intelligence, to bring in a new era of control.

It seems that many people just forgot about the 5G storm when the ‘pandemic’ conveniently hit, but the concerns are still real to this day.

It’s still too early to truly understand what concerns will come with 6G technology, but with the scale that artificial intelligence will expand over the next decade, we are certainly preparing for something that has never been seen before.

Perhaps the final step before the true merging of man and machine, as we become the next generations that follow, 7G, 8G..

Lost into a digital hyperreality, never to be seen again.