“Despite the pandemic, 5G<\/a> cities came online at a rate of nearly two per day, with the addition of 635 new 5G cities in 2021,” according to the new Viavi report.
By the end of January 2022, 72 countries had 5G networks in place, with the newest crop of 5G countries comprising Argentina, Bhutan, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Malta and Mauritius, which all came online in the second half of 2021, as per the report.
Interestingly, Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA) has overtaken the Asia Pacific including Greater China (APAC) to become the region with the most 5G cities at 839. APAC has 689 5G cities and the Americas has 419, Viavi said.
The United States and China are the countries with the most cities connected with 5G at 296 and 356, respectively. The Philippines remained in the third spot globally with a total of 98 5G cities.
“Currently, most 5G networks deployed are Non-Standalone (NSA) networks, meaning that 5G equipment is added to existing 4G network infrastructure,” the report found, adding that there are 24 5G standalone (SA) networks globally.
There is an industry consensus that many of the next-generation use cases and monetization models that are associated with 5G will be possible with only 5G SA core networks.
The report also highlighted that as of March 2022, 64 operators have publicly announced their participation in the development of Open RAN<\/a> networks.
Of these, 23 are live deployments of Open RAN networks, and 34 are in the trial phase with a further seven operators that have publicly announced they are in the pre-trial phase.
\"What comes next in 5G is the reinforcement of networks. This will take a couple of forms. Firstly, we expect to see more Standalone 5G networks, which will deliver on much of the promise of 5G, both for the operator and for the wider ecosystem of users,” said said Sameh Yamany, CTO, Viavi Solutions. “And secondly, we expect to see Open RAN continue its rapid development and start to become a de-facto standard.”
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