Digitalisation and the green transition are driving change to societies at large. These intertwined processes play a key role in the broader topic of sustainable development, which is making its way into different sectors of society. Sustainable development is not only about technology development but involves several business and regulatory decisions that have a fundamental impact on our future society. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important enablers in this sustainability transition and the ICT sectors own sustainability role is yet underdefined. To help scholars, industries, and regulators to better structure the complex topic of connecting sustainable development and the ICTs, this paper discusses development of sustainable 6G mobile communications with a multi-perspective approach including environmental, social and economic sustainabilities, business, regulation and technology dimensions, and academia, industry and regulator stakeholder perspectives. The paper presents findings for 6G development from the three identified perspectives. This paper further explores an illustrative case study of spectrum management in 6G, which has a fundamental role in defining the future mobile connectivity market.

数字化和绿色转型正在推动整个社会的变革。这些相互交织的过程在更广泛的可持续发展主题中发挥着关键作用，可持续发展正在进入社会的不同部门。可持续发展不仅涉及技术开发，还涉及对我们未来社会产生根本影响的多项商业和监管决策。信息和通信技术 (ICT) 是可持续发展转型的重要推动因素，而 ICT 行业自身的可持续发展作用尚未明确。为了帮助学者、行业和监管机构更好地构建连接可持续发展和信息通信技术的复杂主题，本文从环境、环境、社会和经济可持续性、商业、监管和技术层面，以及学术界、行业和监管机构利益相关者的观点。本文从三个确定的角度介绍了 6G 发展的发现。本文进一步探讨了 6G 频谱管理的说明性案例研究，它在定义未来移动连接市场方面发挥着基础作用。