5G-Market Snapshot November 2023
By the end of September 2023, GSA had identified 578 operators in 173 countries and territories were 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, a total of 300 operators in 114 countries and territories had launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services
290 operators in 113 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched 5G mobile services
152 operators in 70 countries and territories had launched 3GPP-compliant 5G fixed wireless access services (just over 52% of those with launched 5G services)
13 operators had announced soft launches of their 5G networks that are not counted in the above launch figures
121 operators are identified as investing in 5G standalone (including those evaluating/testing, piloting, planning and deploying, as well as those that have launched 5G standalone networks). GSA has catalogued 43 operators as having deployed or launched 5G standalone in public networks
GSA has catalogued 2,148 announced 5G devices, up by more than 71% from 1,257 at the start of 2022
GSA has identified 1,137 announced 5G phones, up more than 85% from 613 at the start of 2022
There are at least 1,756 commercially available 5G devices, up more than 77% annually from 990
5G-Market Snapshot November 2023
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