Nokia is leading the German government-funded 6G-ANNA project, which is designed to focus on developments in end-to-end architecture as part of the country’s larger 6G Platform national initiative. This has relatively modest funding of €38.4m over the next three years, which looks like a seed corn project to raise consciousness at a time when operators are struggling to justify investments in 5G and persuade users that it is worth paying extra for, especially on the consumer side. With relatively nebulous objectives at this stage, Nokia is working with 29 partners under 6G-ANNA to focus on three key technology areas, according to the company – 6G access, automation or simplification, and the “network of networks”. Of these, only the first one, access,…