5G-Market Snapshot February 2023
By the end of January 2023, GSA had identified 519 operators in 156 countries and territories investing in 5G, including trials, acquisition of licences, planning, network deployment and launches. This number excludes nearly 200 additional companies awarded priority access licences in the US auction of CBRS spectrum, which could potentially be used for 5G
Of those, 245 operators in 95 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched at least one 3GPP-compliant 5G service
- 239 operators in 94 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched 5G mobile services
- 104 operators in 56 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched 3GPP-compliant 5G fixed wireless access services — just over 42% of those with launched 5G services
- Nine operators had announced soft launches of 5G networks
- 113 operators are identified as investing in standalone 5G (including those evaluating, testing, piloting, planning and deploying as well as those that have launched standalone 5G networks). GSA has catalogued 38 operators as having deployed, launched or soft-launched standalone 5G in public networks
- GSA has catalogued 1,815 announced 5G devices, up by more than 42% annually from 1,278
- GSA has identified 923 announced 5G phones, up more than 50% from 614 at the end of 2021
- There are at least 1,447 commercially available 5G devices, up more than 49% in a year from 968
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5G-Market Snapshot February 2023
