On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, following the visit to Japan of Mr. Wang Zhiqin, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a key member of the IMT-2030 (6G) Promotion Group, a Chinese 6G promotion organization, XG Mobile The exchange of views on 6G initiatives between China and Japan was held with the 6G Promotion Project members of the XGMF (Forum for the Promotion of XGMF)....
What are the areas where introduction is actually progressing, what are the unexpected challenges, and what initiatives will be required in the future? We hope that you will find this report, including the contents reported in the workshop "Challenges and Measures for Promoting Wireless 5G/Local 5G in Factories" held on April 10, 2025, widely useful as a hint for future introduction of the technology and planning of measures....
Continuing from last year, XGMF will exhibit at Wireless Japan x Wireless Technology Park (WTP) 2025 to be held at Tokyo Big Sight (Ariake-ku, Tokyo) for three days from May 28 (Wed) to 30 (Fri). At the exhibition booth, XGMF participating companies and organizations will present their ingenious dynamic and static exhibits, and a presentation space will be set up in the exhibition booth to introduce the XGMF project and explain the status and latest information on the activities of each company and organization....
A video introducing the "Beyond 5G ready showcase" organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) at the Osaka-Kansai Expo has been released on the official MIC channel on Youtube. The video introduces the highlights of the event in the form of a dialogue between Minister Murakami and the staff in charge of the event....
![Beyond 5G ready Showcase] Minister Murakami's dialogue project: Experiencing next-generation communications at the Osaka/Kansai Expo!](https://xgmf.jp/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mic-eye.webp)
The XG Mobile Forum has released the English version of the "Beyond 5G White Paper - Message to the 2030s - Ver. 4.0," an XGMF white paper that summarizes the challenges and expectations of Beyond 5G from various industries, capabilities required for Beyond 5G, and technology trends. White Paper ~Message to the 2030s~ Ver. 4.0" is now available....
In the interest of informing XGMF members, Berndt's research report "Beyond 5G Activities in Europe with additional flashlights on B5G US activities" will be made available to XGMF members on a quarterly basis....
Ushino Nakayama, a large-scale Wagyu beef fattening operation, is aiming for "zero cattle mortality in the fattening process. Amid a labor shortage, the company is working to achieve this goal by using a local 5G and AI-based system to detect cattle problems at an early stage. We spoke with a person involved in the project to find out what they are doing...
Nagasaki Prefecture has the largest number of inhabited remote islands in Japan. The difficulties of providing medical care on remote islands are not hard to imagine, but Nagasaki University Hospital and Nagasaki Prefecture are promoting an initiative to support remote medical care using local 5G from 2020, and the results of this initiative are attracting attention....
What kind of effects did the introduction of local 5G to the White Ring have, and how will the use of local 5G be expanded in the future? We spoke with Tomoyuki Watanabe of NAGANO SPIRIT Corporation and Atsushi Kanazawa of Nagano City's Sports and Sports Division, who have been working on a series of initiatives....
We had the opportunity to interview the head of BeammWave, a Europe-based company developing digital beamforming solutions. We talked to him about how digital beamforming is taking millimeter wave 5G to the next level and what applications it will enable....
