4G Was For Humans, 5G Was For Machines, 6G Will Be For AI Agents
RCRWirelessNews, Friday, July 25th, 2025
In the 6G era, AI agents will issue requests, negotiate prices, and buy and sell network slices or compute, connectivity, and energy in real time
We live in a world dominated by digital services. From a technological perspective, we've never innovated at this pace or scale before, and networks are racing to keep up. Like laying a track in front of a moving train, networks are scrambling to be ready for the next era of telecommunications, but from now on, there'll be one key difference: Humans are no longer the main customers.
More than 74% of new webpages contain AI content. As of November 2024, 70% of Fortune 500 companies have rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot, with 85% entrusting Microsoft with their integration and innovation decisions. Even email, one of the oldest and most conservative channels, is going bot-first, with 25% of employees using AI to write messages. Add in Gartner's forecast that 80% of enterprises will have Gen AI in production by 2026, and it's no stretch to say that machines will soon mostly be talking among themselves.