WORK PROGRAMME
Strategic Focus Topics with different time horizons, plus projects supporting 5G’s full potential.
6G
Providing guidance and key requirements for design considerations and network architecture evolution*
Green Future Networks
Building sustainable and environmentally conscious solutions
*includes guidance required to master the route to disaggregation e.g. cloud-native networks and network automation
We asked our Board Members from Liberty Global and SK Telecom about the NGMN Work Programmes. Watch their statements here:
High level overview of our complete Work Programme:
For more details concerning our projects:
Objectives
In its projects, task forces and workshops, NGMN:
- establishes clear functional and non-functional requirements for next generation mobile networks
- evaluates and drives technology evolution toward 5G’s full implementation and within the Strategic Focus Topics:
- Green Future Networks
- 6G
plus Supporting 5G’s full potential
- provides input to standards-developing organisations and cooperation partners
- offers a networking platform to assess and address technology challenges
- shares best practices for operating next generation mobile networks
Working Principles
The NGMN Work Programme is a collaborative initiative where the entire NGMN membership, including MNOs, vendors, manufacturers and research institutions, contribute to common project objectives and deliverables.
The NGMN Work Programme is governed by a tollgate process for initiating, approving, and finalizing projects, and a deliverable process for producing, approving, and publishing outcomes to meet NGMN’s objectives. Projects, directed by the NGMN Alliance Board and overseen by the Strategy and Programme Committee, are led by representatives from NGMN’s membership.
Project participants take on roles such as lead or contributor, with support from NGMN’s Office Team in programme management, tools, communication, administrative and legal matters. Projects operate as virtual teams using digital communications and video conferencing, along with regular in-person meetings and workshops.
The Work Programme is primarily contribution-driven, relying on active participation from the membership. Decision-making, deliverable creation, review and agreement are based on consensus, with all deliverables requiring final approval by the Board.