The 9th Global 5G Event Highlights Success of 5G Progress
The 9th Global 5G Event was held successfully at Hotel “The New Otani” locatedin the center of Tokyo, Japan on 20th and 21st September 2022. Although it is still notpossible to foresee an end of COVID-19, it is also important to change into the “newnormal” for social and economic activities. This event was held by hybrid method bothon-site and online while taking sufficient measures against COVID-19 infection.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan and the Fifth
Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF) jointly hosted andorganized this event with the six leading 5G organizations throughout the world (5GAmericas, 5G Brasil, 5G Forum, 6G-IA, IMT-2020(5G)PG and TSDSI) which are themembers of Multilateral MoU partnership to hold the Global 5G Event.
The global 5G event is one of the key global platforms to share the information oflatest trends and exchange views on the many topics for 5G and Beyond 5G including
unified technology standards.
During the one and half days’ event, 6 sessions were held on topics including
Regulation and Polices, Business trend and Commercialization, Network development
and installation for 5G Advanced, Prospects from 5G to Beyond 5G, Security and Trustand Initiative of Advanced Service in Japan. 37 invited speakers gave excellent
presentations and provided important insights in each panel discussion. In final
comments to the distinguished audience, 5GMF suggested that stakeholders in 5G
should contribute to realize utilization of full 5G performance in the industrial fields
where 5G is needed by 2025 and collaborate with the various areas of research andstudy on Beyond 5G/6G towards the year 2030.
The 10th Global 5G Event will be hosted by Republic of Korea 5G Forum in 2023.

Global 5G Events MoU Signatories:
Emeritus Prof. YOSHIDA Susumu, Chairperson of the Fifth Generation Mobile
Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF), said: “On behalf of 5GMF, I would like to express
my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who contributed to hold this event in Tokyo again.
Energetic endeavors to deploy and spread a wide range of 5G commercial services areunderway worldwide. Therefore, we believe that it is extremely important to take thisopportunity to exchange the latest knowledge and expertise and share information about
ongoing activities on 5G and Beyond 5G, thereby mutual understanding, mutual collaborationand mutual friendship among us are expected to be further strengthened.”
Prof. KyungHi Chang, Chairman of the 5G Forum Executive Committee, said:“Congratulations on the successful hybrid event after the break due to COVID 19. Experts fromeach country/continent share information on the 5G policies, status, business trends, andprospects towards the next generations. The event becomes more valuable platform ofcollaboration among participants without any doubt. Please don’t forget to schedule inadvance for 10th anniversary Global 5G Event at Seoul, Korea, to be held during the week of
30th Oct., 2023.”

Mr. Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas, stated: “5G continues to make progress inall parts of the world. The 9th Global 5G Event provided an opportunity for the leading 5G
associations to discuss the opportunities and challenges for 5G as its ecosystem grows andprovides new technology solutions to more industries.”
Prof. José Marcos C. Brito, General Secretary of 5G Brasil, said: “First, we are happy forthe return of the 5G Global event, after the interruption caused by covid. This year, the 9th 5G
Global event brought us important updates on the status of 5G implementation in the world,
considering the most diverse aspects, like: 5G trends and policies, 5G commercialization, 5G
solutions for vertical industries, and 5G against Covid-19. This year we also began to discuss
about 6G networks, which are already starting to be analyzed in several research projects. In
short, a unique and fundamental event to understand the present and future of mobile
communications networks in the world.”
Mr. N G Subramaniam, Chair of TSDSI, said: “After TSDSI signed the Accession Agreement
to the Multilateral MoU in September 2020, this 9th Global 5G Event is the second one in which
TSDSI is taking part with great interest. As India rolls out its 5G commercial service launch, it
is all the more important to enable global benchmarking of deployment of 5G technologies,
and to share results and experiences from pilots, trials and deployments in diverse markets,that will help bringing experiences from our respective regions to a common platform. TheGlobal 5G Event agenda, this year, gave also the opportunity to build a bridge between 5G andBeyond 5G/6G, where TSDSI expressed its views on future technology trends and services.”
Dr. Colin Willcock, Chairman of the 6G-IA Board, said: “ The 9th Global 5G event
presented a unique opportunity to bring the global 5G community physically together again,
to better understand the status of 5G around the world and look to the future beyond 5G.”
Ms. Zhiqin Wang, Chairperson of IMT-2020（5G）PG, said: “The 9th Global 5G Event madea great success. On this global platform, all parties shared the latest progress of 5G and theprospect towards future development on 5G& 5G-A. By working together, we hope 5G releaseits full performance contributing to the digital transformation of economy and society.”