5G Market Snapshot 2021 – end of Year
200 commercial 5G networks launched worldwide
- By end December 2021, GSA had identified 487 operators in 145 countries/territories that were investing in 5G, including trials, acquisition of licences, planning, network deployment and launches; up from 412 operators at the end of 2020. (This number excludes nearly 200 additional companies awarded spectrum in the US CBRS PAL auction, which could potentially be used for 5G).
- Of those, a total of 200 operators in 78 countries/territories had launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services.
- 187 operators in 72 countries/territories had launched 5G mobile services.
- 83 operators in 45 countries/territories had launched 3GPP-compliant 5G FWA services (41.5% of those with launched 5G services).
- Five operators had announced soft launches of their 5G networks that are not counted in the above launch figures.
- 99 operators in 50 countries had been identified as investing in 5G standalone (including those evaluating/testing, piloting, planning, deploying as well as those that had launched 5G SA networks). GSA had catalogued 20 operators in 16 countries/territories as having deployed/launched 5G standalone in public networks.
- GSA has catalogued 1257 announced 5G devices, up by nearly 125% from 559 in a year.
- GSA has identified 614 announced 5G phones, up more than 120% from 278 at the end of 2020.
- There are at least 857 commercially available 5G devices, up more than 155% from 335 in a year.
5G Market Snapshot 2021 – end of Year
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