Mercifully, 6G was largely absent from the largest booths. MediaTek had a somewhat misleading customer data demo, but on the whole, the big-guns avoided the topic like the plague. A major question heading into MWC was whether the upcoming 6G standard would require a new core network, which set many on edge. Thankfully, there was no apparent appetite for this at MWC. The clean-slate opportunity that 5G Standalone represents, once legacy 2G, 3G, and finally 4G are retired, is too good a deal to pass up, and complicating things with a whole new core looks very much unnecessary at the moment. Behind its slightly chaotic badge-scanning turnstile system, Ericsson had a pre-6G demonstration – simulating a 7 GHz transmission between…