IMT-2030

IMT-2030 is the official ITU-R framework that gives 6G its target shape — the same role IMT-2020 played for 5G. It matters because it's the closest thing to a globally agreed definition of what 6G should be, set by the body that coordinates international spectrum and mobile standards, and it anchors the work that bodies like 3GPP then turn into actual specifications.

Rather than dictating technology, it lays out usage scenarios and capability targets. The scenarios extend the familiar 5G triangle — immersive communication, hyper-reliable low-latency communication, and massive communication — and add genuinely new ones, notably integrated AI-and-communication and integrated sensing-and-communication, plus ubiquitous connectivity. It's the vision and requirements layer: it tells the industry what 6G is for, and leaves the how to the engineering bodies that build the standards underneath it.