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Computing experts dismiss the announcement as “absolute and complete fiction” but at least one privacy expert fears that if China — which announced it is officially researching a 6G mobile network — uses the technology to track the public, it could cause “World War Three”.

Chinese government ministries and research institutes met last week to establish a national research and development group for the sixth generation of wireless technology, says a state-published report.

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Beijing’s move to develop 6G comes days after the country’s top three telecos rolled out 5G mobile phone services nationwide.

North America currently uses 4G networks, which send enough megabits of data per second to stream high-quality videos in real-time on your phone with ease.

But David Skillicorn, a professor in the school of computing at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., said anything more is “a marketing concept, not a technology” because the continent hasn’t “agreed what the frequency spectrum will be and will have no idea what the actual speed of the internet would look like.”