The industry’s evolving and sometimes ambivalent relationship with 6G was exposed at last week’s GSMA M360 APAC event in Seoul, South Korea, designed to put wireless at the center of digital transformation strategies. Almost unwittingly, various speakers highlighted the tension between, on the one hand, promoting 6G as a further major advance, but on the other trying to realign technological advancement with services on the ground. To some extent, this has been driven by the experience of 5G, which in a sense was mis-sold to consumers and even enterprises, as a one off revolution that would transform mobile services. In reality, most of the major advances require 5G Standalone (SA), and even then, only when some of the key capabilities…