people by 2025 as referenced at the 2017 G20 meeting of the Ministers responsible for the digital economy held in Germany; d. encourage the adoption of action plans to spur the rapid deployment of advanced mobile technologies, making available sufficient harmonised spectrum, facilitating the industry investment required to provide the necessary infrastructure and backhaul capacity as well as collaborating and supporting developing countries; e. encourage the acceleration of IPv6 deployment; f. encourage close cooperation as the technology develops, so that countries can share best practices and key learnings - all of which will help with the rollout of 5G. Promoting International cooperation on standards 40. We believe that industry-led voluntary international technical standards, developed in an open, transparent and consensus-based manner and in market-led approaches, are critical for the progress toward the digitally connected world. These are a means to promote economic growth, innovation, productivity and competitiveness, and interoperability, trust and security in the use of ICT’s. Standards should be developed in a manner consistent with the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Code of Good Practice and the TBT Committee Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards. 41. To sustain and extend global connectivity and economic interaction through digitalisation, international standards should be preferred over the use of national or regional standards. When international standards are transposed into, or adopted as, regional/national standards, such a transposition or adoption should be done according to the procedures of the developer of the international standard and the resulting regional/national standard should not conflict with the original international standard. . To avoid duplication of efforts among the different standardisation organisations, transparency, communication and exchange between these organisations should be encouraged, consistent with the TBT Committee Decision on Principles for the development of international standards. 42. Standardisation is an effort driven by market needs that can advance social and economic objectives. Therefore standards-setting practices should be open to G7 ICT and Industry Ministerial Meeting 2017│ MAKING THE NEXT PRODUCTION REVOLUTION INCLUSIVE, OPEN AND SECURE 11