6G R&D tracker 1H 2025

Data coverage

The tracker includes over 270 entries from over 700 organisations worldwide, including national governments, operators, vendors and academic organisations. Entries include government policy, R&D programmes, labs, testbeds, R&D partnerships, technological developments and memorandums of understanding. Each entry records information including the organisations involved, a summary of the R&D, the region and country, dates of announcements, funding amounts, timelines and any KPIs mentioned.

The document features six sheets.

• 6G tracker - this sheet contains detailed data on 6G R&D plans and projects.
• Major organisations - this sheet contains an overview of major organisations actively working on 6G R&D.
• Key word taxonomy - this sheet contains our categorisations of specific key words.
• Technology development stages - this sheet explains the key words used to classify the stages of technology development for projects in the tracker.
• Glossary - this sheet contains explanations on acronyms used for organisations and technologies.
• List of all organisations - this final sheet outlines all organisations mentioned in our tracker.

This tracker also includes filters for easy navigation and a three-tiered taxonomy of key words to allow streamlined sorting of information. It also includes a navigation guide for user ease.