Latest status of global 5G development
5G has been commercially available for two years since 2019. How is this new generation of mobile communication technology developing in the world?
To examine the development of 5G, the most intuitive two dimensions are to look at the two sides of communication: network and terminal. Now let's take a look at the current situation of 5G based on GSA's report in the first half of 2021.
1. 169 operators from 70 countries have released 5G, and the total number of operators investing in 5G has exceeded 400. This number is already very large.
2. Europe, Asia Pacific and North America belong to the first developing regions of 5G, and have basically completed the commercial use of 5G networks; South Asia, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Central and South America and other regions also followed closely in the deployment and pre commercialization of 5G; In sub Saharan Africa, 5G is still blank in most regions.
3. From the perspective of the highest 5G rate advertised by 54 operators, most of them are between 1Gbps and 2Gbps, which is basically the capability of 100M bandwidth on Sub6G; Some operators can reach 4Gbps or above, which should be the result of deploying millimeter wave with large bandwidth. In any case, the average rate announced by these 54 operators has reached 1145Mbps, far exceeding the network capacity in the 4G era, demonstrating the advantages of 5G.
4. From the 5G spectrum invested by operators, n77 (3300~4200MHz) and n78 (3300~3800MHz) are the absolute mainstream, followed by n257, n258 and n261, which are 700MHz, 2.6GHz, 2100MHz and 1800MHz. In China, in addition to 3.5GHz and 2.6GHz as the capacity layer, 2100MHz will be used as the deep coverage layer for China Unicom and China Telecom, and 700MHz as the wide coverage layer for mobile and radio and television is under construction.
5. At present, NSA is still the mainstream of 5G deployment network, but the number of NSA increases slowly; SA network began to appear in 2020Q3 and grew year by year. With the large-scale deployment of 5G in China, it will drive the rapid development of 5G in vertical industries and promote the maturity of SA ecology.
The regions investing in 5G SA are all the first developing regions of 5G, such as North America, Europe, China, South Korea, Australia, etc. It can be seen that the advantages of SA network have been recognized by advanced regions.
6. The number of terminals supporting 5G SA continues to grow rapidly, exceeding 50% of the total. At present, all major chip manufacturers have mature products supporting NSA and SA dual-mode, so the newly released terminals support SA in hardware, and manufacturers may conduct targeted software configuration according to the network conditions in different countries.
7. In terms of the frequency bands supported by the terminal, the two TDD bands, n78 and n41, are absolutely mainstream, which should be closely related to the Chinese market, especially n41 (2600MHz). Followed by the FDD frequency band n1 (2100 MHz), which was used for 3G and 4G, many operators chose to convert part of the bandwidth to 5G to improve coverage.
The types of 8.5G terminals are rich. In addition to the most common mobile phones, there are also applications such as CPE, industrial routers and gateways for FWA, as well as vehicle routers. This shows the universality of 5G applications. The indoor and outdoor 5G CPE routers developed by SmileMBB fully consider the customers' needs in the whole scene.
At present, the deployment of 5G in the world has changed from a spark in China, the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea to a prairie fire in five continents. SMILEMBB, a subsidiary of Xinde, focuses on the R&D and production of 5G data terminal products for the current market, and has launched indoor and outdoor CPE products. Among them, XGC5551 is an indoor CPE, which supports Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 baseband chip and MTK WiFi6 chip, covers the global mainstream frequency band, and is stable, Enjoy the ultimate experience of gigabit speed.
