https://j.people.com.cn/n3/2026/0601/c95952-20462538.html

China Telecom Research Institute, China Telecom Corporation Hubei Branch, and CITIC Mobile Communications Technology Co., Ltd. have jointly conducted a peak download speed test of a 6G terminal prototype system in Wuhan, Hubei Province. According to the results, the peak download speed of a single terminal reached 5Gbps (gigabits per second), and the peak download speed of the entire system reached 10Gbps, demonstrating that 6G technology has great potential in terms of throughput and spectrum efficiency.

The purpose of this test was to move the 6G terminal prototype from the laboratory environment to the outdoor actual environment and verify the actual downlink peak speed of 6G technology in typical scenarios.  During the field measurements, engineers adopted the MU-MIMO (multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output) method and connected two 6G terminal prototypes to the base station at the same time. The test results show that under the condition that a single terminal supports a downstream signal bandwidth of 400MHz (megahertz), both terminals achieved a peak download speed of 5Gbps, and the entire system reached 10Gbps, realizing a 10,000Mbps class wireless broadband experience.