5G Ecosystem: November 2021: Member Report

5G Ecosystem: November 2021: Member Report

Executive Summary

Key facts

The number of announced 5G devices continues to rise and has now reached 1115, an increase of 18.9% in the last quarter. Of these devices, 67.7% are understood to be commercially available. The number of commercial 5G devices has grown by 24.2% over the last three months passing 750 for the first time, to reach a total of 755 devices understood to be commercially available.

By end-October 2021, GSA had identified:

• twenty-two announced form factors.
• one hundred and sixty-five vendors who had announced available or forthcoming 5G devices.
• one thousand, one hundred and fifteen announced devices (including regional variants, but excluding operator-branded devices that are essentially re-badged versions of other phones), including 755 that are understood to be commercially available:
• five hundred and fifty phones (up 27 from September), at least 491 of which are now commercially available (up 32 in a month).
• one hundred and ninety FWA CPE devices (indoor and outdoor), at least of which 90 are now commercially available.
• one hundred and fifty-six modules.
• seventy-one industrial/enterprise routers/gateways/modems.
• forty-eight battery operated hotspots.
• twenty-five tablets.
• twenty laptops (notebooks).
• eleven in-vehicle routers/modems/hotspots.
• eight USB terminals/dongles/modems.
• thirty-six 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).
• 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.

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5G Ecosystem: November 2021: Member Report