Private-Mobile-Networks May-2023 Summary
Demand for private mobile networks based on 4G LTE, and increasingly 5G technologies, is being driven by the spiralling data, security, digitisation and enterprise mobility requirements of modern business and government entities. Organisations of all types are combining connected systems with big data and analytics to transform operations, increase automation and efficiency or deliver new services. Wireless networking with LTE or 5G enables these transformations to take place even in the most dynamic, remote or highly secure environments, while offering the scale benefits of a technology that has already been deployed worldwide.
Key messages in 1Q23:
- GSA counts customer references as unique organisations or government entities deploying one or more 3GPP-based 4G LTE or 5G networks in a given country that are worth more than €100,000
- The total number of GSA customer references to 1Q23 is 1,148, deploying at least one network. Net additions in the quarter were 69 customer references, up from 1,077 in 4Q22
- On average, 65% of references included in this database are non-public and unique to this database, submitted by members of the GSA Private Mobile Networks Working Group Partner (SIG). This number can be higher for certain industries, with more than 80% of sectors such as military and defence, maritime and power plants not visible in the public domain
- The PMN SIG now has nine members including Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Mavenir, Airspan, Keysight Technologies, OneLayer and PrivateLTEand5G.com. Please note that Huawei was not able to confirm additional references for this update
- There are 74 countries around the world that now have at least one private mobile network
Manufacturing, education, device testing and lab-as-a-service, and oil and gas were the four sectors with the highest growth difference compared with 4Q22. Manufacturing, education and mining remain the top three sectors for customer references, although this does not represent the actual size and scale of deployments, which vary by user type
There is typically a strong, positive correlation between the number of private mobile network references and countries with dedicated spectrum. Private mobile networks are mainly in the developed world so far, with the US, Germany, China, UK and Japan having the most references. It is sometimes reported that China has a high number of networks, reaching up to 10,000, but we believe a large portion of those networks use the public network and therefore do not meet our definition
Private-Mobile-Networks May-2023 Summary
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