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The daily newsletter that preceded this site, 18 August to 10 October 2026. Each edition is a dated snapshot; for current status use the study pages.

#Edition
01Release 20 is not a 6G release
02Every freeze date that matters
03What 6G is actually being asked to do
043GPP has written down what an AI agent is
05The study is over. Now someone has to write “shall.”
06The document RAN wrote for the ITU
07Capabilities without numbers
08The physical layer 6G decided not to reinvent
09The ten milliseconds nobody proposed changing
10The stack that has to carry two radios
11Where to cut the base station
12The band that has no number
13How do you test a receiver that learns?
14The four work tasks that keep the phone a phone
15AI for the network, and the network for AI
16The acronym in the AI folder
17The eighth security area
18The deadline 3GPP did not set
19SA3 closes its AEAD study
20Lawful interception for 6G: ASN.1 stays, AI traffic gets a flag
21The 256-bit decision 6G security builds on
22SA4’s 6G media study wants to measure AI traffic
236G management: agents, digital twins and a data framework
24Charging 6G: AI tokens and multi-dimensional resources
25SA6 plans the 6G application layer: agents, compute, sensing
26Mission-critical in 6G: carry it over, then simplify
276G NAS: CT1 waits on SA2’s modular design
28Satellite warnings, and the roaming fight behind network selection
29CT3 inherits 5G’s exposure stack for 6G
30Which agent protocol will 6G speak?
31GTP-U vs SRv6 vs QUIC: CT4’s user-plane contest
32Designing a 6G core that survives signalling storms
33Should 6G specs still be Word files?
34Madrid pushes the big 6G calls to December
35What 6G keeps from 5G, and what it throws away