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Besides technologies and services, the business models of mobile communication networks are also evolving and will continue to evolve rapidly in the forthcoming years. Due to the ongoing fixed‐mobile network convergence and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) convergence, future communications will be tightly integrated in enterprise applications. The global rise of 5G campus networks should be considered just the start toward 5G enterprise networking and the emergence of new business models and ecosystems. This also raises questions on the role of international standards and rise of open software stacks paving the way toward a new telecommunications ecosystem, in which virtualized network functions from different developers and providers can be dynamically orchestrated and integrated in a secure, reliable, and energy‐efficient manner. The work on OpenRAN and the involvement of new players (e.g. Facebook Magma) can be considered a foretaste of these changes in the value chain of the entire mobile industry.

In mobile technologies, as in many other areas, geopolitical factors might mean a more fragmented future for the world. In their desire for digital sovereignty, different governments push national academic and industry researchers to generate as many intellectual property rights as possible while shaping 6G. Prefaced by insightful tech leaders from America, Asia, and Europe, with authors from all around the world, this book is an attempt to promote the collaborative approach used to enable academic and industry players with different interests to work together to shape a common future.

With this book, we aim to provide students, researchers, senior executives, managers, and technical leaders with a snapshot of current international thinking on the major 6G research aspects. Similar to 5G, 6G also represents an aggregation of different technology innovations into an overall complex system architecture. We do not have the ambition to catch every technology trend, but we believe that we are quite comprehensive with our present collection of expert views in 2021.