MediaTek, Ericsson complete multi-vendor pre-6G trial with T-Mobile

What happened

Reported on November 06, 2026, MediaTek and Ericsson announced the successful completion of the "world's first" multi-vendor pre-6G over-the-air (OTA) connection trial, together with T-Mobile. The trial utilized 400 MHz channel bandwidth, demonstrating the potential to achieve peak download speeds of more than 5Gbps and upload speeds of more than 2Gbps, and achieved ultra-low end-to-end latency as low as 4 milliseconds. The partners combined MediaTek's pre-6G User Equipment (UE) Proof-of-Concept (PoC) platform with Ericsson's advanced pre-6G radio infrastructure over T-Mobile's network, as part of T-Mobile's 6G Innovation Hub efforts. MediaTek said the milestone shows the 6G vision is transitioning from single-vendor laboratory concepts to an interoperable, multi-vendor 6G ecosystem operating under real-world conditions; executives stated that seamless interoperability between silicon and network infrastructure is essential to accelerating 6G commercialization and that this marks the start of the journey toward commercial 6G. The source does not state any impact on chip prices or supply.

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Source: Evertiq · 11/6/2026 · View original source