5G-enabled countries

Saudi Arabia : With a median speed of 370.12 Mbps, Saudi Telecom now has the most extensive 5G coverage. According to a study from the Kingdom’s Communications and Information Technology Commission, the number of governorates served by the 5G network has increased to 60, up from just 7 in the first quarter of 2020.

Table 2. Technical contributions for 5G standards by the top standard developing companies Organisation/entity5G 3GPP contributions5G approved technical 3GPP contributionsQUALCOMM (US)6.94%6.44%Samsung Electronics (KR)5.72%6.00%ZTE (CN)5.67%5.37%LG Electronics (KR)2.39%2.41%Who leads the 5G patent race as 2021 draws to the end? – IAM Media www.iam-media.com › who-leads-the-5g-patent-race-2021-draws-the-end

The U.S. had the highest 5G Availability The United States had the highest 5G Availability at 49.2%, followed by the Netherlands (45.1%), South Korea (43.8%), Kuwait (35.5%) and Qatar (34.8%).

The big infrastructure winner here was Ericsson , bagging its biggest five-year contract ever to put up the new network.