Verizon's top networking executive, Kyle Malady, offers a blunt assessment of the expected next generation of wireless networking technology: "There's going to be a collection of new technology advancements, and then people will rally around the ones that are meaningful," he said. "We'll see how those things pan out." However, Malady said that, so far, there's no clear reason to move beyond 5G. "I really don't know what the hell 6G is," he said. "We just put 5G in. And I think there's a lot of development still to come on that one." Malady's comments certainly align with his job at Verizon, which is to manage the operator's wired and wireless operations and to construct a 5G network. But they also serve to put a decidedly pragmatic spin on the growing noise around 6G technology.