It went largely under the radar during MWC, but in February ten governments aligned on a press release which called on telecoms providers to adhere to principles of “resilience, openness and security”. They underlined that not only would they be implementing policies to make this happen, but they would encourage other nations to do the same. The industry is familiar with concepts of security and openness, but what does resilience mean? Such a broad term encapsulates a variety of concepts, especially in this context. On 13th June 6GWorld brought together leading experts in policy, research and defence to explore: What’s driving the emergence of resilience as a topic, and why now? Core concepts in resilience for future systems. How they overlap or conflict with aims for the next generation of telecoms. What implications this has for the evolution of commercial telecoms models, policy and research.

2023 highlighted some of the disparities between stakeholders and their different concepts of what 6G can or should be – a source of societal and economic growth (governments); a set of revolutionary new capabilities and services.

October’s 6GSymposium brought together more than 50 speakers from across the telecoms ecosystem and beyond to address how we move from ‘visions for 6G’ to implementation.