Indian prime minister Narendra Modi claims the country will have developed its own 6G platform and will start to deploy it by 2030. That would put India in the first wave of expected launches of 6G networks. Although standardization work has not begun, there is a general expectation that there will be three 5G-Advanced standards releases (starting with Release 18 in 2024) and that the first 6G release might be in 2027 or 2028. All that supposes that the industry does indeed support another ‘G’ and that it will be devised based on conventional standards processes, despite the rising influence of open source and cloud software initiatives in mobile networks, and the increasing participation of industry groups from beyond mobile…