If 6G Stays AI-Native, Its Real Break from 5G Will Be Infrastructure and Control, Not Just Speed
6G is still a late-decade standardization project, not a near-term consumer upgrade, and its defining change is not simply higher throughput than 5G. The shift under discussion is toward an AI-native wireless system that uses new spectrum bands, integrated sensing, and far more autonomous network behavior—while also introducing harder deployment constraints around terahertz hardware, dense…