Canada joins international partners in endorsing shared principles for 6G
Feb. 27, 2024
Global Korean Post
– Canadians to benefit from secure and reliable next generation wireless technologies
Ensuring that telecommunications networks are secure, resilient and innovation-focused requires global collaboration.
The Government of Canada is working with international partners to ensure Canadians will continue to have access to secure and reliable telecom services and the latest wireless technologies.
Yesterday, François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that Canada has joined the United States, Australia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom in endorsing a Joint Statement of Principles for 6G, the next generation of wireless technologies.
These shared principles for the research and development of 6G wireless communication systems will support open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, resilient, and secure connectivity.
6G refers to the next generation of wireless communications after 5G. 6G technologies are expected to be significantly faster than current technologies while enabling many new applications that harness the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality, among other innovations.
Canada’s endorsement of the Joint Principles for 6G will build on work under the Telecommunications Reliability Agenda, a set of actions to improve the reliability of telecommunications and better protect Canadians.
The Joint Principles for 6G will also build on Canada’s international cooperation under the Global Coalition on Telecommunications, the Prague Proposals on Telecommunications Supplier Diversity and the UK’s Open RAN Principles, which Canada endorsed in 2022.
