FEBRUARY 2019
The State of Deployments
Courtesy of VIAVI Solutions
Commercial 5G Launches by End of 2019 Shows the existing 5G networks and the 5G launches that operators have publicly announced will be operational before the end of 2019
Finland
Elisa Faroe Islands DNA Switzerland United Kingdom Telia Føroya Tele Salt BT Sunrise Czech Republic Three Canada Swisscom Vodafone Estonia Vodafone Japan Rogers Telia KDDI France Poland China NTT Docomo United States Ireland SoftBank Orange France T-Mobile Kuwait China Mobile Vodafone AT&T Monaco China Telecom C Spire ooredoo Monaco Telecom South Korea Verizon Spain Zain Sprint VIVA KT T-Mobile Orange Spain Italy Lebanon LG U+ Claro SK Telecom Alfa Portugal TIM Wind Tre UAE
Altice Etisalat Philippines Malta du Globe Melita PLDT Bahrain Saudi Arabia Batelco STC VIVA
Qatar South Africa ooredoo Australia Vodafone Rain Optus Comsol Lesotho Telstra Chile Vodacomm
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NUMBER OF OPERATOR LAUNCHES:
6 3 2 1
5G Deployments Worldwide Shows the number of operators in each region who have launched or are planning to launch commercial 5G networks by the end of 2019
21 10 Asia Europe 8 14 Americas Middle East & Africa 2 Australasia
5G Network Launches by Timing Shows the known or planned timing for launches of commercial 5G networks
2018 Launches H1 2019 H2 2019 Unspecified 2019
Australia Telstra Australia Optus Ireland Vodafone Bahrain Batelco Ireland Finland Elisa Bahrain VIVA Canada Rogers Italy Wind Tre Chile Entel Kuwait ooredoo China China Telecom Philippines Globe PLDT Lesotho Vodacom Lesotho Czech Republic Vodafone Czech China China Mobile South Africa Comsol Republic Estonia Telia Estonia Poland T-Mobile Polska Switzerland Swisscom Faroe Islands Føroya Tele France Orange France Qatar ooredoo Qatar UK BT Finland DNA Three Italy TIM South Korea KT Telia Finland LG U+ Japan KDDI SK Telecom Kuwait VIVA NTT Docomo SoftBank UAE Etisalat Lebanon Alfa Kuwait Zain United States AT&T Malta Melita C Spire Monaco Monaco Telecom Qatar Vodafone Qatar Verizon Portugal Altice
South Africa Rain Saudi Arabia STC
United States Sprint Spain Orange Spain T-Mobile USA Switzerland Salt Sunrise
UAE du
UK Vodafone UK
United States Claro (Puerto Rico)
5G Network Testing Shows the three major interconnected phases of 5G network testing
Lab Field Assurance
PHASE PHASE FIELD TO PHASE LAB TO FIELD ASSURANCE
Assurance & Field Validation 1 2 Automation 3 Technology Deploy, Assure, Verification Lab Validation Activate Service Turn-Up Optimize, & Validation & Scale Monetize
TM500 CellAdvisor NITRO Mobile End-user experience 5G RAN performance testing Assurance simulation
T-BERD/MTS-5800 NITRO Mobile TeraVM Fiber inspection Intelligence & Analytics Application emulation & certification
ONT-600 NITRO vNet Fusion NITRO Mobile Optimization Optical network testing Virtual service activation and performance management RANtoCore End to end network simulation testing
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