The XG Mobile Promotion Forum (XGMF), which promotes mobile service penetration/mobile business development, and the Bharat 6G Alliance, which promotes the development and deployment of 6G communication technologies in India, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate toward building a global ecosystem for 5G/6G. MoU) to collaborate towards building a global ecosystem for 5G/6G.
What are the areas where introduction is actually progressing, what are the unexpected challenges, and what initiatives will be required in the future? We hope that you will find this report, including the contents reported in the workshop "Challenges and Measures for Promoting Wireless 5G/Local 5G in Factories" held on April 10, 2025, widely useful as a hint for future introduction of the technology and planning of measures.
Continuing from last year, XGMF will exhibit at Wireless Japan x Wireless Technology Park (WTP) 2025 to be held at Tokyo Big Sight (Ariake-ku, Tokyo) for three days from May 28 (Wed) to 30 (Fri). At the exhibition booth, XGMF participating companies and organizations will present their ingenious dynamic and static exhibits, and a presentation space will be set up in the exhibition booth to introduce the XGMF project and explain the status of activities and the latest information of each company and organization.
A video introducing the "Beyond 5G ready showcase" organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) at the Osaka-Kansai Expo has been released on the official MIC channel on Youtube. The video introduces the highlights of the event in the form of a dialogue between Mr. Murakami, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the staff in charge of the event.
XGMF published English version of XGMF white paper " Beyond 5G White Paper ~Message to the 2030s~ Ver.4.0".
It summarizes issues and expectations for Beyond 5G from various industries, capabilities required for Beyond 5G, and technology trends.
The XG Mobile Promotion Forum (XGMF), which promotes mobile service penetration/mobile business development, and the 6G Forum, which facilitates research on 6G communication technologies in Korea, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate toward building a global ecosystem for 5G/6G.
We are pleased to announce the release of Dr. Hendrik Berndt's ‘Beyond 5G Activities in Europe with additional flashlights on B5G US activities’.
The XGMF, following its mission to provide useful information to its members, has decided to release a quarterly report on Dr. Berndt's ‘Beyond 5G activities in Europe with additional flashlights on B5G US activities’.
Ushino Nakayama, a large-scale Wagyu beef fattening operation, is aiming for "zero cattle mortality in the fattening process. Amid a labor shortage, the company is working to achieve this goal by using a local 5G and AI-based system to detect cattle problems at an early stage. We spoke with the people involved to find out what they are doing to achieve this goal.
Nagasaki Prefecture has the largest number of inhabited remote islands in Japan. The difficulties of providing medical care on remote islands are not hard to imagine, but Nagasaki University Hospital and Nagasaki Prefecture are promoting an initiative to support remote medical care using local 5G from 2020, and the results of this initiative are attracting attention.
What kind of effects did the introduction of local 5G to the White Ring have, and how will the use of local 5G be expanded in the future? We spoke with Tomoyuki Watanabe of NAGANO SPIRIT Corporation and Atsushi Kanazawa of Nagano City's Sports and Sports Division, who are promoting a series of initiatives.
We had the opportunity to interview the head of BeammWave, a company based in Europe that develops digital beamforming solutions. We asked him how digital beamforming will take millimeter wave 5G to the next level and what kind of applications it will lead to.