ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the sixth generation (6G) costs based on the infrastructure deployment from the Terahertz spectrum acquisition, spectrum sharing, and energy consumption to 6G virtualized networks, also considering the additional services such as artificial intelligence and potentially quantum machine learning to mention a few entities 6G Network Architecture. In 6G, the communication architecture is moving away from a pure cellular deployment and will see the formation of networks as a service. As 6G is the successor to fifth generation (5G), it makes sense to look at the 5G cost modelling and see if that can be adapted to 6G. According to many in the industry, the deployment of 5G has become more of an economical challenge rather than a technical one. The chapter focuses on identifying different costs for differentiating traffic demands depending on the geographic location versus population distribution to define the 6G rollout strategy considering the cell-sizes distributions.
