The initiative announced Monday (local time), dubbed the "Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security," drew endorsements from major economies such as Japan, Britain, Germany and France, alongside Albania, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Honduras, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, the Philippines, Romania and Sweden.
The participating governments pledged to deepen cooperation over the coming 12 months and beyond, vowing to bolster the security, interoperability and resilience of next-generation networks.
They agreed to designate government points of contact, pool technical resources and lay the groundwork for commercial deployment, while endorsing trustworthy artificial intelligence as central to secure 6G development.
" Today’s action recognizes that 6G will be dramatically different from 5G, and that advancing U.S. and allied leadership requires a dramatically different playbook," said Arielle Roth, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator.
The coalition gives shape to goals President Donald Trump set out last December in a policy paper, "Winning the 6G Race," which cast next-generation networks as a pillar of American national security, foreign policy and economic prosperity.
Roth had first hinted at the plan in March, warning against embracing an existing model " built around censorship, surveillance and control" — a pointed jab at Chinese vendors such as Huawei and ZTE, whose equipment Washington has flagged as a security risk since Trump's first term.
Political news outlet Politico said the alliance is designed to sharpen diplomatic coordination among allies ahead of next year's World Radiocommunication Conference in Shanghai, where 6G standards will be negotiated, and to keep China in check.
Known formally as IMT-2030, 6G aims for theoretical peak speeds of about 1 terabit per second — roughly 50 times faster than current 5G — and latency as low as a ten-thousandth of a second.
The first detailed specifications are expected around March 2029, with commercial rollout anticipated near 2030.
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