5G Market Snapshot September 2024
GSA’s September 2024 snapshot of the 5G market highlights the rapid growth and adoption of 5G technology worldwide, with significant investments and deployments across various regions and operators.
By the end of July 2024, GSA had identified 622 operators in 185 countries and territories investing in 5G in the form of trials, acquisition of licenses, planning, network deployment and launches. Additionally, nearly 200 other companies were awarded priority access licenses in the US auction of CBRS spectrum, which could potentially be used for 5G.
Other highlights this edition:
- 162 operators in 75 countries and territories have launched or soft-launched 5G fixed wireless access services based on 3GPP standards — just over 46% of those with launched 5G services.
- There are now 143 operators investing in 5G standalone access, including those evaluating, testing, piloting, planning and deploying as well as those that have launched standalone 5G networks. GSA has catalogued 60 operators as having deployed, launched or soft-launched standalone 5G in public networks.
- The number of announced 5G devices is up by more than 123% since the start of 2022, with 2,797 devices catalogued.
- Support for band n78 among 5G devices has surpassed 2,000 models.
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