Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced the Qualcomm X105 5G Modem-RF, the world’s leading 5G Advanced platform featuring the industry’s first 3GPP Release 19-ready modem, laying the foundation for 6G development and testing. Building on Qualcomm Technologies’ decades of leadership in connectivity, the Qualcomm X105 achieves significant improvements in data speeds and power efficiency, while introducing breakthroughs in quad-band GNSS and integrated NR-NTN support. Its integrated 5th generation AI processor utilizes agentic AI in the modem to detect, classify and optimize data traffic types based on user scenarios, enhancing the user experience across gaming, calling and social media.

6G is being designed as an AI-native system that builds upon three key pillars: connectivity, wide-area sensing, and high-performance compute. These next generation networks will feature new and advanced capabilities, including intelligent radios with integrated wide-area sensing capabilities, virtualized and cloud RAN with high-performance and energy efficient compute, AI-based network autonomy, as well as edge and centralized data centers for entirely new AI workloads.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS), America’s leading 5G operator, today announced an expanded strategic collaboration to accelerate the wireless industry’s transition from 5G Advanced to 6G, with commercial deployments targeted beginning in 2029. This collaboration aligns with Qualcomm Technologies' broader 6G industry initiative unveiled at MWC Barcelona 2026 to accelerate global readiness for the next generation of wireless innovation.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced a comprehensive portfolio of AI-driven RAN innovations that accelerate the value of RAN AI and network autonomy ahead of the 6G era, delivering immediate operational benefits to mobile network operators while establishing the foundation for next-generation autonomous and AI-native networks. The company is launching the Agentic RAN Management Service within its field-proven Dragonwing RAN Automation Suite, alongside a suite of AI features, designed for commercial Radio Unit (RU) and Distributed Unit (DU) RAN platforms. Together, these solutions enable Telcos to transform their networks - unlocking performance and operational efficiencies today while partnering with Qualcomm Technologies, a telecommunications leader, to define 6G networks of tomorrow.

As telecommunications evolves toward 6G, operators need a partner who can deliver cost-effective, power-efficient, AI-native infrastructure that addresses today's challenges while preparing for tomorrow's opportunities. The answer requires demonstrated leadership in cellular, deep infrastructure expertise and a comprehensive technology portfolio spanning devices to RAN to datacenters.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Ericsson have achieved technical alignment on fundamental 6G radio innovations, successfully validating these pioneering advancements through collaborative lab prototypes. This milestone represents significant progress toward establishing future 6G specifications and accelerating commercialization. The partnership will be highlighted at MWC 2026, taking place from March 2–5, where live demonstrations will showcase key radio advancements and performances in new spectrum.

From air-interface foundations to AI-native services, our MWC technology demonstrations show how we are engineering 6G for intelligence and efficiency. Wireless connectivity continues to evolve as devices, services and networks become more intelligent and more essential to daily life. As AI raises expectations at the edge, future wireless systems must deliver more than higher data rates. They must improve efficiency, adapt to context and support new classes of services across devices and infrastructure.

The conversation about 6G begins with familiar building blocks: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and full duplex technology.

Operating with MIMO increases capacity and reliability by using multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver. In 5G, massive MIMO leverages dense arrays with up to a few hundred antenna elements at the base station to serve many users simultaneously, while greatly improving spectral efficiency and overall performance. Looking ahead to 6G, Giga-MIMO pushes this evolution further by incorporating thousands of antennas alongside advanced signal processing techniques. This approach unlocks wideband channels in the upper-midband spectrum for 6G wide-area coverage, enabling rapid, co-sited deployment of 6G networks that deliver massive gains in throughput and consistent, high‑quality user experiences far exceed what was possible in previous generations.