While 5G roll-out is barely beginning in many markets, the USA and China are squaring up over 6G as a major focal point for their global competitiveness, both eyeing up 2030 for first deployments. China first identified this date as a target for first availability of commercial services back in 2018 when the country began 6G research, firming up on this in a paper published early June 2021 by the government-backed China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). This paper set out three core use cases and 10 key technical developments that would underpin them. Then three months later, the USA’s Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) staged its inaugural 6G Summit in Denver on August 31. This was a…