Like those inane messages on trains to look out for anything that does not look right, the repetitive 6G drum beat falls on increasingly deaf ears. This is a pity because there are some good things coming, with the problem lying in the positioning as a radical step change rather than the evolutionary development they represent. Some operators and vendors are getting this, noting the muted attention to 6G at MWC 2023 this year, as well as at other events. But others are still hard at it, such as Japan’s NTT, which with researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has just completed a demonstration of a phased-array transmitter module to enable instantaneous ultra-high capacity data transmission to mobile receivers.…