The Bharat 6G Alliance, along with nine international organisations, has signed the Delhi Declaration, reaffirming a shared commitment to building a secure, open, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable 6G ecosystem. The declaration was unveiled during the International Bharat 6G Symposium 2025 at the India Mobile Congress 2025.
Signatories include the NextG Alliance, 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association, Finland’s 6G Flagship (Oulu University), South Korea’s 6G Forum, 6G Brasil, Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN), Germany’s 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA), UK India Future Networks Initiative (UKI-FNI), UK Telecommunications Innovation Network (UKTIN), Japan’s XG Mobile Promotion Forum, ESA Europe, as well as India’s TSDSI and Nasscom.
This advocates for open interfaces, multi-vendor interoperability, and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled network orchestration to promote innovation, affordability, and technological diversity. Sustainability is a central focus of the declaration, which calls for the design of energy-efficient, repairable, and recyclable systems to reduce carbon emissions while ensuring global accessibility.
It also envisions end-to-end global connectivity through the seamless integration of terrestrial, non-terrestrial, and space-based networks, including satellites and high-altitude platforms, to provide uninterrupted coverage across land, sea, air, and space.
Additionally, the declaration encourages open standards across hardware, software, and cloud-native platforms, enabling participation from smaller and emerging vendors in an ecosystem currently dominated by proprietary technologies. However, it also underscores the importance of respecting intellectual property rights to maintain a balanced innovation environment.
