One of the most interesting industry events to take place this year was the Brooklyn 6G Summit, hosted by Nokia and NYU, the latter a pioneer in making very high frequency spectrum usable for mass market applications – one of the few capabilities that most stakeholders agree will be part of 6G, even before standards work has begun. Including ‘6G’ in the title of a conference can signal either hype or a very blue-sky approach, but in fact, this event took a down-to-earth view, with speakers mapping out the early assumptions for an evolution from 5G to 6G as credibly as they can at this preliminary stage, while also sharing some cutting edge technology ideas related to next generation mobile…