Number of 5G devices reach 628
The number of announced 5G devices continues to rise and has passed the 600 mark this month; there are now 628 announced 5G devices, which is an increase of 21% over the last three months.
Last month, GSA reports that 5G Commercial Networks Are Now Live In More Than 60 Countries.
The number of 5G devices understood to be commercially available has also grown rapidly, exceeding 400 devices for the first time. The total number of commercially available 5G devices now stands at 404, which is an increase of 33.3% over the last three months, and represents 64.3% of all announced 5G devices.
By end-February 2021, GSA had next 5g devices identified:
– twenty-one announced form factors.
– one hundred and nineteen vendors who had announced available or forthcoming 5G devices.
– six hundred and twenty-eight announced devices (including regional variants, but excluding operator-branded devices that are essentially rebadged versions of other phones), including 404 that are understood to be commercially available:
– three hundred and six phones (up 12 from December), at least 274 of which are now commercially available (up 23 in a month).
– one hundred and twenty-two FWA CPE devices (indoor and outdoor), of which 47 are now commercially available.
– eighty modules.
– thirty-four industrial/enterprise routers/gateways/modems.
– twenty-nine hotspots.
– fifteen laptops (notebooks).
– eight tablets.
– thirty-four other devices (including drones, head-mounted displays, including in vehicle routers/modems/hotspots, robots, snap-on dongles/adapters, TVs, USB terminals/dongles/modems, cameras, femtocells/small cells, vehicle OBUs, a switch, a vending machine and an encoder).
Not all devices are available immediately and specification details remain limited for some devices.
In terms of geography, Asia Pacific is expected to dominate the global 5 G devices market in years ahead followed by North America. The growth in the Asia Pacific market is attributable to the rise in the number of mobile connections. In the future, mobile connections in North America and the Asia Pacific are expected to account for more than 50% of the number of mobile connections globally, which is expected to drive the 5 G devices market, F&F reports.
