Post-4G wireless communication has different business traits from its predecessors; where the earlier generations had a popular and obvious market, future markets are more sophisticated with a tangible shift toward industrial use cases and globalization. Those in business, management, and economics will find their work more salient than ever in the mobile communications industry. A variety of factors--global political, socioeconomic, legal and regulatory, technological, and environmental issues--should be considered. The book is the result of a multi-faceted collaboration to theorize the foundation and anticipate the pivotal topics of these paradigms, probable use cases, and global markets. Such wise guidance can potentially pave the way and define milestones for important technological investments and engineering research concentrations and efforts.

The book’s four parts discuss the envisioned features of 6G in different domains, mostly based on insights from the developing aspects of 5G around the world. It has a non-engineering theme that looks at issues from business, marketing, and economic points of view. Part 1’s first chapter looks at global value creation/protection and supply chain flow for 6G, including the effects of global disruption. Part 1’s remaining chapters present results from a 6G flagship workshop, including legal and regulatory, socio-economic, research and technology, and environmental issues, and identify key trends and uncertainties related to user/developer, firms, ecosystems, and geopolitical domains. Different trends related to social, economic, and environmental sustainability in a modern 6G environment are also explained.

Part 2’s three chapters discuss theoretical subjects related to value creation, business modeling, and the benefits of innovation, apparently for 5G/6G though the content conformity is vague. Part 3 begins with an awkward discussion about local networks in 5G/6G, including regulatory, security, privacy, spectrum management, market analysis, and competition provision issues. Chapter 9 provides a rough discussion of the prospective amendments to policy and regulations, based on the new communication features and ecosystems for 5G/6G. Chapter 10, “Sovereignty and 6G,” fluently discusses the geopolitical issues of emerging 6G around the world. Part 4’s two chapters attempt to express the specifications of “beyond 6G.”

The book’s chapters could be composed in a more cohesive manner. Seemingly copy-and-pasted paragraphs are not clearly relevant to the main topic of discussion, and an overall theme that reflects the objective of the book is missing. Despite the subject’s potential and the creditability of the affiliated institutions, the book is not a seminal work.

Despite its faulty structure, the book can be useful for business and marketing students and researchers to get some insight into different business aspects of 5G/6G. For technical and engineering people, it is more of a public knowledge read.