5G Ecosystem: Executive Summary: December 2021
Executive Summary
Key facts
The number of announced 5G devices has risen by 16.4% in the last quarter to reach a total of 1154 devices. Of these devices, 790 are understood to be commercially available (65.8%). This is an increase of 22.5% over the last three months.
By end-November 2021, GSA had identified:
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- 22 announced form factors.
- 167 vendors who had announced available or forthcoming 5G devices.
- 1154 announced devices (including regional variants, but excluding operator- branded devices that are essentially rebadged versions of other phones), including 608 that are understood to be commercially available:572 (up 22 from October), at least
- 506 of which are now commercially available (up 15 in a month).
- 194 FWA CPE devices (indoor and outdoor), of which 93 are now commercially available.
- 160 modules.
- 74 industrial/enterprise routers/ gateways/modems.
- 53 battery operated hotspots.
- 21 laptops (notebooks).
- 25 tablets.
- 11 in-vehicle routers/modems/ hotspots.
- 8 USB terminals/dongles/modems
- 36 other devices (including drones, head-mounted displays, robots, TVs, cameras, femtocells/small cells, repeaters, vehicle OBUs, a snap-on dongle/adapter, a switch, a vending machine and an encoder).
- 645 announced devices with declared support for 5G standalone in sub-6 GHz bands, 381 of which are commercially available.Not all devices are available immediately and specification details remain limited for some devices.
- six hundred and twenty-seven announced devices with declared support for 5G standalone in sub-6 GHz bands, 434 of which are commercially available.
Not all devices are available immediately and specification details remain limited for some devices.
We can expect the availability of devices to continue to improve and for more information about announced devices to emerge as they reach the market. Based on vendors’ previous statements and recent rates of device release, we might expect to see the number of commercial devices surpassing the 820 mark by the end of Q4 2021. GSA will be tracking and reporting regularly on these 5G device launch announcements. Its GAMBoD database contains key details about device form factors, features and support for spectrum bands. Summary statistics are released in this regular monthly publication.
5G Ecosystem: Executive Summary: December
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