Ericsson completes 6G pre-standard OTA session
February 27, 2026
Ericsson has successfully completed a 6G pre-standard over-the-air (OTA) session. This milestone was achieved on a pre-standard 6G system using am end-to-end architecture designed to be AI and cloud native. Conducted at Ericsson’s US headquarters in Plano, Texas, the OTA session validates the readiness of key 6G building blocks. The demonstration featured radio hardware, RAN Compute, software-defined air interfaces, and cloud platforms. Ericsson’s future-proof software architecture is deployable on multiple hardware platforms, including CPU (Central Processing Units) and GPU (Graphics Processing Units).
This achievement supports the US government’s focus on 6G leadership, including early research, global standards and forward-looking spectrum policy. 6G is a critical infrastructure for national security, economic competitiveness, and AI-driven innovation. Ericsson’s work directly supports those priorities by showing how future networks can deliver secure, high-performance, AI-native connectivity that underpins US economic competitiveness, innovation, and national security.
“Ericsson’s 6G demonstration is an important milestone in next generation wireless innovation, enabled by American ingenuity,” said Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce. “The Trump Administration will always back our trusted partners, and we are committed to an American designed and operated future of cutting-edge connectivity.”
“6G will be foundational to how artificial intelligence scales across society and will be critical to the national security, economic prosperity, and global competitiveness of the United States,” added Börje Ekholm, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson. “Completing this world’s first live 6G trial in the United States is a tangible proof point that advanced wireless innovation, manufacturing, and research is anchored here – supporting U.S. leadership in next-generation connectivity. We continue to lead innovation alongside the U.S. ecosystem, working with government, partners, operators, enterprises, academia, and startups.”
Why this matters
Specifically, the 6G trial proves two key capabilities to prepare future networks for AI: powering AI robotics with instant, reliable connections and processing for real‑time control; and enabling real‑time video streaming. As AI expands beyond smartphones to power robotics, autonomous systems, immersive applications, and industrial automation, wireless infrastructure is becoming a critical layer of the AI stack. 6G networks will be designed to sense, compute, and adapt in real time, enabling consistent low latency, higher uplink capacity, and new classes of AI services that are not possible today.
Ericsson’s OTA milestone demonstrates that these capabilities are moving into system-level reality.
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