Voice-over-5G Industry Overview
The voice-over-5G (Vo5G) market is moderately competitive. And, with the advancement in the 5G infrastructure, new players are also expected to enter the market.
- In April 2019, a Spanish carrier, Orange Spain, and ZTE completed their voice and data call over a standalone 5G network in Europe with 5G New R In April 2019, a Spanish carrier, Orange Spain, and ZTE completed their voice and data call over a standalone 5G network in Europe, with 5G New Radio base station, 5G core network, and test devices. They achieved speeds of 876 Mbps for a single-user handset and 3.2 Gbps for 12 handsets, simultaneously. Furthermore, in May 2019, Huawei completed its VoNR call, which was made using Huawei Mate 20X 5G phones, representing a 5G standalone (SA) network.
- In December 2019, Ericsson realized the viability of standalone 5G, following its successful VoNR interoperability test along with MediaTek. The test used solutions from Ericsson and MediaTek's commercial Dimensity 1000 chipset, deployed over a 3.5 GHz TDD band. Whereas, operators, like Verizon, stated their plans to gradually shift to standalone (SA NR) mode, where 4G core infrastructure reliance is absent, by 2020.
Voice-over-5G Market Leaders
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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
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Deutsche Telekom AG
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AT&T Inc.
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
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SK Telecom Co. Ltd.
- *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order