5G Market Snapshot – September 2025
GSA has identified 644 operators in 191 countries and territories investing in 5G.
The Annex of 5G launches based on data in the GSA GAMBoD databases is available for GSA Members and Associate subscribers.
By the end of July 2025, GSA had identified 644 operators in 191 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, 361 operators in 134 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched at least one 3GPP-compliant 5G service.
345 operators in 136 countries have launched or soft-launched 5G mobile services.
173 operators in 77 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched 3GPP-compliant 5G fixed wireless access services — just over 47.9% of those with launched 5G services
18 operators had announced soft launches of 5G networks
177 operators are identified as investing in public 5G standalone (including those evaluating, testing, piloting, planning and deploying as well as those that have launched 5G standalone networks). GSA has catalogued 85 operators as having launched or soft-launched 5G standalone in public networks
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5G Market Snapshot – September 2025
