The conventional wisdom is that a new next-generation mobile network is introduced about every decade, at least in the digital era starting with 2G networks. In practice, the industry adopts a major platform about every decade, with major tweaks about every five years.
The interim additions tend to extend the life of the platform by improving performance over the original release.
Though faster speeds are virtually certain to be a feature, support for edge and cloud computing, full-duplex communications, spectrum sharing and more incorporation of artificial intelligence and machine learning are likely to be added, some argue. Many features will be aimed at supporting enterprise use cases.
Better support for time-sensitive use cases, integrated access and backhaul and multi-carrier operations are expected as well.
The emerging pattern seems to be creation of the physical layer, spectrum asset and modulation specs once every decade, with features and spectrum frequencies added five years after the new platform launches.
It is not exactly “continuous development,” but something closer to that.
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