As of January 2022, GSA reported that 99 operators in 50 countries worldwide are investing in public 5G Standalone (SA) networks in the form of trials, planned or actual deployments and that 20 operators in 16 countries/ territories had launched public 5G SA networks, including China Mobile, Vodafone UK and Germany, SoftBank, T-Mobile US, SingTel, STC, Rogers, RAIN and DIRECTV.
Countries/territories with operators identified as investing in public 5G SA networks
An additional five operators have deployed 5G SA technology but not yet launched services or have only soft-launched them, another 25 or so have announced 5G SA pilots for public networks and 22 more are reportedly involved in evaluations/tests/trials.
