5G Market Snapshot May 2024
By the end of March 2024, GSA had identified 585 operators in 175 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, 310 operators in 118 countries and territories had launched or soft-launched at least one 3GPP-compliant 5G service
The spectrum bands most supported in deploying or deployed 5G networks are C-band, 700 MHz, 26/28 GHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.5 GHz
GSA has catalogued 2,601 announced 5G devices, up by more than 107% from 1,253 at the start of 2022