Together with enhancements aimed at existing use cases such as mobile broadband, industrial automation and vehicle-to-everything, 3GPP Release 17 introduces support for new ones including public safety, non-terrestrial networks and non-public networks.
In December 2020, the plenary meetings of the 3GPP Technical Specification Groups (TSG) approved the new Release 17 timeline.
3GPP, the global telecommunications standards body, agreed that the schedule would be completed this year, with a freeze in March 2022, followed by coding protocols frozen and stable in June 2022.
