The document recommends policymakers to consider 5G-related interventions in the following five areas:
- Encouraging the opening of tech standards, platforms and networks. The document recommends selective policy interventions to encourage opening of tech standards, platforms and networks, particularly when competition is failing, and when such moves would bring benefits or reduce risks to the economies and societies.
- Supporting diversity in business models for private 5G networks for Industry 4.0 and beyond. The document recommends policymakers to consider allocating appropriate amount of the over 3GHz spectrum, i.e. spectrum suitable for local private 5G networks, on a flexible, localized, transparent and inclusive basis, making it directly accessible also to local entities interested in building their own private 5G networks.
- Exploring synergies between digital communications, energy and other strategic infrastructures. The document recommends policymakers to consider aligning regulations in telecoms and other utilities, particularly in power, to soften any potential regulatory barriers to synergic investments between these types of infrastructures and industries.
- Transforming telecommunications post covid 19. The document recommends policymakers to work with the telecoms and other stakeholders to formulate a vision of the future digital economy, among others around more deeply shared nationwide infrastructures as well as expanded role of telecoms as national digital service providers, trustworthy and secure providers of nationwide connectivity and guardians of private and public data.
- Responding to concerns about health, security and control. The document recommends policymakers to assure the public that they have a grasp on protecting its security, freedom and control over its own affairs amid a growing overlap between the virtual and real worlds, while showing their commitment to progress, readiness to take precautions against health and security risks, and support to continuous research in these fields.