So the cellular industry is often lauded for its planning and general coherent approach to the world.
Let's remind people how inaccurate that is.
From the get go, Bell Labs & parent AT&T decided, having invented cellular telephony, that there was no market for it. (repeating the famous IBM error that "the world will only need 3 computers, 2 in America and maybe one in England).
Later, people invened the bluetooth stack (yech - serial line emulation, modem control tones, and no sensible mesh mode for ages)
Then blackberry and nokia tried to copy apple's iphone ideas and almost totally tanked what had previously been incredibly smart and succesful industries.
They they caused the fixed telephone service to run out of telephone numbers multiple times.
Most recently, car owners and smart meter owners are finding that the ability to remote access said vehicles and devices is being turned off because providers won't be running edge, gprs (2.5G) Or even 3G pretty soon - so because there's no backwards compatibility until much later generations, goodbye to all those useful services.
And what is 6G actually for, remind me?
My wifi still works ok :-) on IPv4 (only 46 years old) and IPv6 (20+ years old...
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