vivo Communications Research Institute releases 6G series white papers to envision future digital life

      On the morning of October 26, 5G has just begun to be commercialized on a large scale around the world, but the industry has already begun researching and exploring 6G. Recently, the vivo Communication Research Institute officially released the "6G Vision, Demands and Challenges" and "Digital Life 2030+" series of white papers. In the white paper, based on people's imagination of digital life scenarios in 2030 and beyond, combined with future technology development trends, the vivo Communication Research Institute gave a preliminary view of the 6G vision and needs, and analyzed the challenges 6G will bring to networks and terminals.

　　According to the law of industry development, the replacement cycle of mobile communications is about 10 years. At present, the industry generally expects that 6G will be put into use in 2030. Compared with 4G, 5G network has faster connection speed, lower latency, wider connection and other characteristics. What are the core characteristics of 6G compared with 5G?

Qin Fei, President of vivo Communications Research Institute

　　Regarding this question, Qin Fei, director of vivo Communication Research Institute, said that the 6G era will be 10 years later. Although it is difficult to make a conclusion now, the core of 4G and 5G is connection and digitalization. The core of 6G is connection +, digitalization +, plus powerful intelligence, which means an additional dimension of service capability. He believes that 6G is not equal to 5G + AI. Behind free connection and ubiquitous intelligence, powerful communication, computing, data capabilities and their integrated services must be provided.

　　Ten years from now, what changes will ICT technologies represented by 6G bring to people's lives? As early as the first half of this year, the vivo Communication Research Institute launched a 6G application scenario use case collection activity with the theme of "Imagine Digital Life in 2030", and received more than 800 works from fresh university graduates of different majors, as well as works by more than 20 senior experts and media professionals in the science and technology digital field. In order to make the scenario prediction more scientific and feasible, the vivo Communication Research Institute also further studied the development forecast reports of related industries for 2030 and the development plans of multiple institutions for the next 10 years, and finally summarized and wrote "Digital Life 2030+".

vivo 6G Series White Paper

　　In this white paper, vivo Communication Research Institute has refined and analyzed the development trends in 11 aspects that are closely related to people's lives in 2030 and beyond, and presented more than 20 vivid scenario cases. These cases include 60 creative product and service concepts, in order to enable consumers and industry technicians to establish a visual perception of digital life in 2030 and beyond, so as to support 6G vision and demand analysis.

　　vivo has always paid attention to the evolution and standard setting of cutting-edge technologies in the communications industry. As early as 2016, vivo increased its layout and investment in 5G, and established a 5G R&D center to fully participate in 5G core technology and standardization research.

　　As of October 2020, vivo has applied for more than 2,000 5G invention patents and submitted more than 4,000 5G proposals to the 3GPP standardization organization, ranking among the top ten in 3GPP influence. In October 2020, vivo and ZTE completed the field millimeter wave test organized by the IMT2020 (5G) Promotion Group in Huairou, Beijing based on vivo's 5G millimeter wave mobile phone.

　　In the 5G mobile phone market, vivo has been committed to bringing consumers more abundant 5G mobile phones and better 5G experience. It has currently released 19 5G mobile phones, providing more diverse choices for more consumers and accelerating the popularization of 5G mobile phones.

　　As soon as the 5G standard was released in 2019, vivo set up a 6G research team. "The 6G vision we describe is a freely connected physical and digital fusion world. As a terminal company, we want to be the bridge between the physical and digital worlds," said Qin Fei. Looking to the future, vivo will continue to focus on the field of information consumption terminals and provide intelligent products and services based on consumers' digital life needs.