The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) plans to finish the initial 6G standardisation process “no later than the year 2030”, according to an official draft 6G framework. The ITU-R study group in charge of the document reached an agreement last week. It awaits adoption at the end of September. Several countries and associations contributed over the past two years of discussions. They...

WWRF Chair Nigel Jefferies met Cosmas Zavazava, Director of the ITU Telecommunications Development Bureau, in Geneva last week. We took the opportunity to present the Director with a copy of WWRF’s latest book ‘5G, Cybersecurity and Privacy in Developing Countries’ and took the opportunity to discuss potential collaboration between the two organisations on issues related to development. We also had...

Outlook 32: Foundation Models for Telecom: Paving the Way for Self-Built Networks The recent progress around foundation models opened a new era in many Machine Learning (ML) applications. One specific type of foundation models, Large Languages Models (LLMs), created a technology leap in human like text understanding and generation with repercussions that we are only starting to grasp. ChatGPT and...

WWRF Webinar: 5G, Cybersecurity and Privacy in Developing Countries 12 April 2023 a successful webinar was arranged with the above theme based on a book recently published by River Publishers under the same title. The webinar had 50 participants from virtually all over the world and including talks on central themes of the book by some of the authors in...