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one6G becomes Market Representation Partner

Jan 06,2025

With its new Market Representation Partner status in 3GPP confirmed (during 3GPP OP Meeting #52), one6G has underlined its ambition to be a driving force in shaping the future of wireless communication - influencing standards that address the needs of emerging industries.

In their recent news release one6G underline their commitment to “fostering innovation and bridging the gap between market requirements and technological capabilities for the evolution of wireless networks."

The release continues: "As an MRP, one6G will be contributing to the 3GPP scope by offering valuable market insights and advice and bringing consensus views on market requirements, such as services, features, and functionalities. The one6G team will regularly participate in 3GPP Project Coordination Group (PCG) meetings alongside Technical Specification Group Chairs.”

The following, is text from the one6G website, posted on November 21, 2024:

A Data-Driven Approach to Representation

The journey to achieving MRP status began with an extensive one6G member survey conducted to identify the markets and business segments that can be effectively represented. The survey results revealed a broad range of industries and use cases that one6G’s members actively support:

Business segments the one6G members’ products and services relate to:

  • Education: 53%
  • Software: 47%
  • IT/ICT: 32%
  • Consultancy Services: 32%
  • Hardware: 23%

Markets the one6G members’ products and services relate to:

  • Telecom: 70%
  • Smart Cities: 65%
  • Industry Automation: 43%
  • Connected Vehicles: 41%
  • e-Health: 23%

Critical KPIs for Relevant Use Cases:

  • Latency: 79%
  • Data Rate: 75%
  • Reliability: 75%
  • Energy Efficiency: 66%
  • Positioning Accuracy: 52%

KPIs for the use cases relevant to the one6G members’ products and services, which cannot be satisfied by 5G and 5G advanced systems:

  • Latency: 47%
  • Sensing accuracy: 47%
  • Energy efficiency: 43%
  • Positioning accuracy 43%
  • Reliability 42%

New functionalities or capabilities, not available in 5G and 5G advanced systems, which are necessary for the use cases relevant to the one6G members’ products and services:

  • Sensing 60%
  • AI/ML 58%
  • Distributed AI/ML 52%
  • Distributed computing 49%
  • Computing 23%

For more on one6G – Go to https://one6g.org/

Contact for this article: Kevin FLYNN, Marketing and Communications Officer, 3GPP