Australia: Global Coalition on Telecommunications' 6G security and resilience principles was adopted

On 3 March 2026, the telecommunications authorities from Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the United States adopted the Global Coalition on Telecommunications' 6G security and resilience principles. The principles outline security and resilience considerations that should be incorporated from the early stages of network design, standardisation, and deployment to ensure that 6G infrastructure functions safely and reliably as critical digital infrastructure. The principles recommend zero trust approaches with continuous monitoring, robust authentication, and authorisation of network functions, and secure external interfaces to ensure that 6G does not inherit or rely on weaker legacy 4G or 5G protections. They also urge secure integration of Artificial Intelligence for threat detection and network management, and day-one support for quantum-safe cryptography using widely accepted post-quantum standards to address harvest-now-decrypt-later and future cryptographically relevant quantum computing risks. On resilience, the principles emphasise measurable resilience metrics, safe failover to alternative access networks, and interoperable architectures, including Open Radio Access Network to support multi-vendor deployments and reduce supply-chain concentration risks. The principles are supported by industry stakeholders, including NTT Docomo, SoftBank, AT&T, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Vodafone. It was also highlighted that government agencies from Sweden and Finland endorsed the principles.