The 6G era starts in the UAE: e& launches the world's first commercial U6GHz network

e& UAE announced the world's first commercial Upper-6GHz (U6GHz) Giga-MIMO mobile network — an early move into the 6G era, with commercial launch scheduled for the second half of 2026.

AI-native by design

The operator describes an architecture that embeds machine learning into every network layer for dynamic self-optimisation, predictive maintenance and autonomous service delivery. e& says it has already implemented more than 1,100 AI use cases across telecom, digital services and enterprise solutions.

Higher-band spectrum like U6GHz unlocks more capacity for data-heavy services — immersive communication, industrial automation and smart-city systems — the kind of bandwidth the next wave of applications will assume is there.