Trump Jokes 6G Will Provide 'Deeper View Into Somebody's Skin'
President Donald Trump jokingly questioned Wednesday how 6G will be an upgrade over previous wireless technologies during a roundtable with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and tech companies. “So you’re into 6G now?” Trump asked Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. “I was a leader on 5G, getting that done [during his first administration], and now they’re up to 6. What does that do, give you a little bit deeper view into somebody’s skin? See how perfect it is? I like the cameras [in the old days]. Now they cover every little” detail. Trump suggested that wireless companies would soon enough begin to develop an additional 7G iteration “before 6[G] gets old.”
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Amon was touting Qualcomm’s collaboration with the FCC and the Trump administration to “accelerate 6G. We’re working to launch [the technology] first in the world” at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. That will be “another opportunity for America to lead in the next wireless evolution.”