LTE Fast Facts: Unlicensed Spectrum Update May 2019

LTE FAST FACTS: LTE IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM (DATA AS OF END-APRIL 2019)

• 8 LAA deployments/launches:
• AT&T (US), T-Mobile (US), AIS (Thailand), MTS (Russia), Smartone(Hong Kong), TIM (Italy), Turkcell, Vodafone Turkey (deployed)
• 28 LAA trials and deployments in progress in 18 countries
• The latest include MOTIV and Vimpelcomin Russia, and 3 Indonesia
• 1 eLAAtrial (SK Telecom)
• 3 LTE-U network deployments/launches
• T-Mobile (US) – though it is now switching focus to LAA, AIS (Thailand), Vodacom (South Africa)
• 8 LTE-U trials or pilots in progress
• 1 LWA launch …
• Chunghwa Taiwan
  • … and 2 others trialling the technology (in Singapore and South Korea)
• 1 commercial launch of a private LTE network using CBRS
• 16 operators investing in CBRS trials in the US
• The latest are Altice, CDE Lightband, CoxCommnications, Extenet, Mobilitieand Windstream
• 21 commercially available modem/platform chipsets supporting unlicensed access
• 133 devices announced supporting LTE in unlicensed spectrum or shared spectrum using CBRS (including regional variants)

LTE Fast Facts are taken from the GSA report “LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum: Trials, Deployments and Devices April 2019”available from www.gsacom.com.

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