5G Market

Update End December 2021

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 200 commercial 5G networks launched worldwide
• By end December 2021, GSA had identified 487 operators in • 83 operators in 45 countries/territories had launched 3GPP-
145 countries/territories that were investing in 5G, including compliant 5G FWA services (41.5% of those with launched 5G
trials, acquisition of licences, planning, network deployment services).
and launches; up from 412 operators at the end of 2020. (This
number excludes nearly 200 additional companies awarded • Five operators had announced soft launches of their 5G
spectrum in the US CBRS PAL auction, which could potentially networks that are not counted in the above launch figures.
be used for 5G). • 99 operators in 50 countries had been identified as investing
• Of those, a total of 200 operators in 78 countries/territories in 5G standalone (including those evaluating/testing, piloting,
had launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services. planning, deploying as well as those that had launched 5G SA
networks). GSA had catalogued 20 operators in 16
• 187 operators in 72 countries/territories had launched 5G countries/territories as having deployed/launched 5G
mobile services. standalone in public networks.

Count of operators with commercial 5G services Count of operators investing in 5G and operating
commercial 5G networks
200 500
150 400
300
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50 100
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Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
18 18 18 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21
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2021)
5G deployed in network, services launched 5G deployed in network, soft launch

Deploying/deployed, precommercial Planning/evaluating/testing/trialling

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 Over 1250 announced 5G devices
• GSA has catalogued 1257 announced 5G devices, up by nearly 125% from 559 in a year.
• GSA has identified 614 announced 5G phones, up more than 120% from 278 at the end of 2020.
• There are at least 857 commercially available 5G devices, up more than 155% from 335 in a year.

Count of announced and commercially available models of 5G Announced 5G device models by type (end December 2021)
device (end December 2021)
Industrial
Announced Commercial FWA CPE routers
16.7% 6.4% Modules
1400
13.8%
1200 Hotspots
4.4%
1000 Laptops (notebooks)
2.2%
800
Tablets
600 2.2%
400 In-vehicle
200 router/modem/hotspot
0.9%
0
USB modems
Apr-19

Apr-20

Apr-21
Aug-19

Aug-20

Aug-21
Jun-19

Jun-20

Jun-21
May-19

May-20

May-21
Mar-19

Jul-19

Mar-20

Jul-20

Mar-21

Jul-21
Sep-19

Feb-20

Sep-20

Feb-21

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Oct-19

Oct-20

Oct-21
Jan-20

Jan-21
Nov-19

Nov-20

Nov-21
Dec-19

Dec-20

Dec-21
Phones Others 0.6%
48.8% 3.8%

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 Spectrum band support in 5G networks and devices
Counts of announced 5G device models supporting key
• The spectrum bands most supported in deploying/deployed 5G 5G spectrum bands (end December 2021)
networks are C-Band, 700 MHz, 26/28 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz.
• The bands most supported in announced 5G devices are C-Band, n78 842
n41 760
2.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 1800 MHz and 700 MHz (n28). n1 664
n77 653
n3 590
Counts of operator investing in key 5G spectrum bands (end Dec 2021) n28 574
n79 493
n5 453
n7 422
Deploying/deployed Licensed Evaluating/testing/trial ling n8 396
n38 356
n20 343
n77, n78 n66 319
n28, n12, or n14 n2 290
n257 ,n258, n261 n40 286
n1 n71 243
n12 212
n7, n38, n41 n25 183
n3 n48 124
n71 n261 72
n79 n260 70
n257 41
n66 n30 37
n260 n258 31
n5 n14 15
n84 10
n40 n80 10
n75, n76 n26 8
47.2-48.2 GHz (USA) n70 6
66-76 GHz n83 5
n46 5
Other n75 5
0 50 100 150 200 250 0 200 400 600 800 1000
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