5G Market

September 2022
Snapshot

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 225 commercial 5G networks launched worldwide

 By the end of August 2022, GSA had identified 501 operators in
153 countries and territories were 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, a total of 224 operators in 89 countries and territories
had launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services
 222 operators in 89 countries and territories had launched 5G
mobile services
 95 operators in 46 countries and territories had launched
3GPP-compliant 5G fixed wireless access services (just over 42%
of those with launched 5G services)
 Seven operators had announced soft launches of their 5G
networks that are not counted in the above launch figures
 111 operators are identified as investing in 5G standalone
(including those evaluating/testing, piloting, planning and
deploying, as well as those that have launched 5G standalone
networks). GSA has catalogued 35 operators as having
deployed or launched 5G standalone in public networks

Count of operators with commercial 5G services Count of operators investing in 5G and operating
commercial 5G networks
250
Investing Launched

200 600

500
150
400

100 300

200
50
100

0 0

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 Map of operator investments in 5G (end August 2022)

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 Over 1,050 commercially available 5G devices

 GSA has catalogued 1,521 announced 5G devices, up by more than 43% from 1,060 in a year
 GSA has identified 827 announced 5G phones, up 197% from 278 at the end of 2020
 There are at least 1,175 commercially available 5G devices, up more than 66% from 704 in a year

Count of announced and commercially available models Announced 5G device models by type (end August 2022)
of 5G device (end August 2022)

Announced Commercial

1,600 FWA CPE

Industrial routers
14.3%
Hotspots 5.8%
1,400
3.7%
Modules
1,200 12.2%
1,000
Laptops
800 (notebooks)
1.8%
600
Tablets
400 2.4%

200
Others
0 5.3%
Phones
Jun-19

Aug-19

Jun-20

Aug-20

Jun-21

Aug-21

Jun-22

Aug-22
Oct-19

Jan-20

Oct-20

Jan-21

Oct-21

Jan-22
Mar-19
Apr-19
May-19

Sep-19

Nov-19

Mar-20

Sep-20

Nov-20

Mar-21

Sep-21

Nov-21

Mar-22
Dec-19

Apr-20
Jul-19

Feb-20

May-20

Dec-20

Apr-21

Dec-21

Apr-22
May-22
Jul-20

Feb-21

May-21

Jul-21

Feb-22

Jul-22
54.4%

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 Spectrum band support in 5G networks and devices
Count of announced 5G device models supporting key
 The spectrum bands most supported in deploying or deployed 5G spectrum bands (end August 2022)
5G networks are C-band, 700 MHz, 26/28 GHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.5 n78 1,061
GHz n41 973
n1 864
 The bands most supported in announced 5G devices are n77 838
C-band, 2.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 1800 MHz and 700 MHz (n28) n28 761
n3 752
Count of operators investing in key 5G spectrum bands n5 623
(end August 2022) n79 555
n8 562
Deploying/deployed Licensed Evaluating/testing/trialling n7 516
n38 462
n77, n78 n20 428
n257, n258, n261 n66 388
n28, n12, n14 n40 390
n7, n38, n41 n2 336
n1 n71 269
n260 n12 244
n3 n25 215
47.2-48.2 GHz (USA) n48 146
66-76 GHz n261 81
n75, n76 n260 80
n30 51
n79
n257 47
n71
n258 37
n66
n14 21
n40
n26 16
n5
n80 11
Other n84 11
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 n75 10
n70 8
n46 7
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 5G roll-out continues to Growth of 5G: count of operators investing and operating
commercial networks
accelerate Investing Launched

500
 By the end of August 2022, GSA had identified 501 450
operators in 153 countries and territories were investing 400
in 5G 350
300
 Of those, a total of 224 operators in 89 countries and 250
200
territories had launched one or more 3GPP-compliant
150
5G services 100
50
 222 operators in 89 countries and territories had 0
launched 5G mobile services
 95 operators in 46 countries and territories had
launched 3GPP-compliant 5G fixed wireless services (just
over 42% of those with launched 5G services) Map of 5G networks
 111 operators are identified as investing in 5G
standalone (including those evaluating/testing, piloting,
planning, deploying as well as those that have launched
5G standalone networks)

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 Annex: Operators with launched 5G networks

(table: supplied in Excel)

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