Summary
Three years after its launch, 5G is approaching adolescence. The telecom industry is under pressure to provide seamless, fast and reliable 5G connections and has made and is still making large investments to meet the demands.
By the end of 2022, it would have been launched by more than 80 countries and in 200+ networks around the world. It continues to be rolled out globally and is gradually integrating new features.
This report analyses the state of the art of 5G and the key challenges for 5G and beyond.
It explores the key challenges and driving forces behind market growth and change.
It includes 5G market forecasts in volume and value to 2027 by country and use case.
Regions and countries covered
- North America: USA – Canada
- Asia-Pacific: South Korea – China – Japan – India
- Europe: Belgium – Finland – France – Germany – Greece – Italy – Poland – Spain – Sweden – Turkey – United Kingdom
- Middle East: Qatar – United Arab Emirates – Saudi Arabia
Table of contents
1. Executive summary
2. 5G Markets – Key facts
3. 5G Markets – Key numbers
3.1. Top 20 by number of subscribers
3.2. 5G subscription and revenue forecasts up to 2027
3.3. Investment perspectives
3.4. World 5G coverage
3.5. 5G coverage in EEA and EFTA countries
4. 5G Markets – Markets, coverage and technology
4.1. 5G is worldwide
4.2. Positive signs of ARPU uplift thanks to 5G
4.3. Growing demand for more than additional GB
4.4. 5G coverage
4.5. 5G coverage is steadily increasing
4.6. 5G deployments in major mobile markets
4.7. Private 5G networks
5. 5G Markets – Investments and spectrum issues
5.1. 5G investments in China
5.2. 5G investments in Japan
5.3. Spectrum prices
5.4. 5G spectrum assignments in Europe in the European pioneer bands
5.5. 5G spectrum assignments in Asia-Pacific
5.6. 5G spectrum assignments in the Americas
5.7. 5G spectrum assignments in the Middle East and Africa
5.8. Spectrum – awards, plans and considerations
5.9. Selection of recent past spectrum auctions
5.10. Major expected spectrum auctions
6. 5G Markets – What’s next?
6.1. Entering the 2nd wave of 5G innovations
6.2. What is next?
6.3. What will 6G look like from 2027-2028?
List of tables and figures
3. 5G Markets – Key numbers
• Top leading countries by number of subscribers (000, June 2022)
• Top leading players by number of subscribers (000, June 2022)
• 5G global subscriptions by region in 2020 and 2027 (%)
• 5G subscriptions in the world by use case, 2020-2027 (million)
• 5G’s share of mobile subscriptions in the World, 2020-2027 (%)
• 5G global revenues by region in 2020 and 2027 (%)
• 5G revenues in the world by use case, 2020-2027 (million)
• 5G’s share of mobile revenues in the world, 2020-2027 (%)
• Domestic wireless and wireline CapEx (million EUR)
• World 5G coverage
• 5G coverage in EEA and EFTA countries
4. 5G Markets – Markets, coverage and technology
• International 5G markets scope
• Mobile ARPU/ARPA/ARPO growth in 2022
• Mobile ARPU/ARPA/ARPO (EUR) uplift thanks to 5G in the last year
• 5G range segmentation strategies
• Overview of 5G coverage by country
• 5G deployments in major mobile markets
• Most common application areas for private 5G networks
5. 5G Markets – Investments and spectrum issues
• 5G CapEx in China (million EUR)
• 5G equipment procurement contracts in China
• 5G base stations in China
• 5G base stations and 5G coverage (% of population) in Japan
• 700 MHz – Price per MHz per PoP normalised for 10 years (cEUR)
• 3.5 GHz – Price per MHz per PoP normalised for 10 years (cEUR)
• mmWave – Price per MHz per PoP normalised for 10 years (cEUR)
• 5G spectrum assignments in Europe
• 5G spectrum assignments in Asia-Pacific
• 5G spectrum assignments in the Americas
• 5G spectrum assignments in the Middle East and Africa
• Spectrum in the C-band in selected countries
• Spectrum in mmWave in selected countries
• Selection of recent past auctions by country
• Major expected auctions by country – Worldwide
• Major expected auctions by country – Europe
DataSet Scope
Forecasts up to 2027 by country and region:
• North America : Canada and United States
• Europe: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom and Rest of Europe
• Asia-Pacific: China, India, Japan, South Korea and Rest of Asia-Pacific
• Middle East: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Rest of Middle-East
List of indicators
• Subscriptions and revenues broken down into three business cases: eMBB, mMTC and uRLLC
– 5G subscriptions by use case (thousands)
– 5G revenues by use case (million EUR)
• Commercial launches & coverage
• 5G pricing
• 5G infrastructure suppliers
• Carriers’ wireless and total CapEx
• 5G spectrum
Geographic area
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Belgium
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
- Canada
- United States
Players
- Alfa
- Altice
- Apple
- AT&T
- Batelco
- Bell
- Bharti Airtel
- Bouygues Telecom
- China Broadnet
- China Mobile
- China Telecom
- China Unicom
- Cisco
- Cosmote
- DNA
- Drei Hutchison
- Du
- EE
- Egypt Telecom
- EIR
- Elisa
- Ericsson
- Etisalat
- Free Mobile
- Huawei
- Intel
- KDDI
- KT
- LG U+
- MCI
- Motorola
- MTN
- Netgear
- Nokia
- NTT DoCoMo
- O2
- Ooredoo
- Optus
- Orange
- Play
- Plus
- Proximus
- Qualcomm
- Rakuten Mobile
- Reliance Jio
- Rogers
- Salt
- Samsung
- SFR
- SingTel
- SK Telecom
- SoftBank
- STC
- Sunrise
- Swisscom
- Tele2
- Telecom Italia
- Telefónica
- Telenet
- Telia
- Telstra
- Telus
- Three
- T-Mobile
- TT Mobil
- Turkcell
- Verizon
- Viva
- Vodafone
- WindTre
- Xiaomi
- Zain
- ZTE
Other details
- Reference: M00063MR2A
- Delivery: on the DigiWorld Interactive platform
- Languages available: French, English
- Tags: 5G, 5G commercial launches, 5G revenues, 5G spectrum, 5G subscriptions, mobile market, wireless market
