Jio Platforms Contributes 82 Technical Proposals at 3GPP Malta Meetings

Jio Platforms Limited (JPL) has announced that its 5G/6G R&D team co-contributed 82 technical items during the April 2026 meetings of 3GPP held in Malta. The contributions spanned both Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network workstreams, with a strong emphasis on AI-native telecom architectures and next-generation 6G systems. The contributions covered both Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network work streams, focusing on AI-native 6G Core systems, disaggregated 6G RAN, mobility management, QoS and policy systems, user plane intelligence, service-based architecture evolution, network sharing, and advanced location services.

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Focus on AI-Native 6G Core and Disaggregated RAN

The company’s 5G/6G R&D division contributed 82 technical items across RAN, Core, Mobility, User Plane, Service-Based Architecture (SBA), and Network Sharing domains. Of these, 59 contributions were made to RAN working groups WG1, WG2 and WG3, while 23 contributions were submitted under SA2. Jio Platforms also presented 28 Change Requests (CRs) and 31 technical proposals spanning 19 6G technology domains, according to a presentation shared by Aayush Bhatnagar of Jio Platforms Limited.

“At the April 2026 3GPP meetings in Malta, the Jio Platforms 5G/6G R&D team participated and co-contributed 82 technical items across RAN and Core workstreams covering AI Native 6G Core, disaggregated 6G RAN, mobility, QoS and policy systems, user plane intelligence, SBA evolution, network sharing, and location services,” Bhatnagar shared in a post on LinkedIn.

The presentation underscored Jio Platforms’ focus on AI-native 6G leadership across disaggregated RAN, Core architecture, mobility systems, SBA frameworks, and user plane intelligence.

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According to the LinkedIn post, the work reflects a broader industry shift toward AI-native telecom systems, where network behaviour, policy enforcement, mobility control, and service orchestration are increasingly driven by software intelligence and distributed cloud architectures.

A major focus area for Jio Platforms has been the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with RAN and Core architectures within the evolving global standards ecosystem.

Bhatnagar highlighted several technology proposals at the meetings, including AI-assisted routing and governance within the 6G Core, AI-native orchestration for disaggregated 6G RAN systems, predictive beam and coverage shaping mechanisms, and joint QoS frameworks for coordinated AI and XR workloads.

Additional proposals included multi-dimensional user plane path selection frameworks, distributed NAS signalling architectures for future 6G systems, enterprise-localised service architectures based on shared infrastructure models, and advanced 3D geofencing and positioning systems spanning terrestrial and non-terrestrial network environments.

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Collaboration With Global Telecom Operators and Vendors

The presentation noted that Jio Platforms is acting as a co-signatory in the CT3 protocol proposal for AI in 6G alongside 28 global operators and vendors, including Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, Google, Oracle, OPPO, Xiaomi, ZTE, Skylo, KPN, Turkcell, among others.

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