Ookla’s Speedtest Market Reports are the definitive guide to the state of fixed broadband and mobile networks around the world. Ookla is also tracking 5G rollouts in a number of European countries (Estonia, Finland, Spain and Italy) as well as in Qatar, South Africa and United Arab Emirates. Telstra and Optus in Australia operate limited availability 5G networks in 12 cities, many of these in the more populated coastal regions. The country’s capital city of Seoul benefits from 5G accessibility served by all three major operators: SK Telecom, LG Uplus and KT Telecom. The company said in a blog entry that the data is currently based on press releases and other publicly available communications, but that “as deployments continue to become commercially available and tests taken with Speedtest use a 5G connection, identified deployments will also be based on Ookla data.In South Korea we are tracking 16 cities with limited availability and two with commercial availability for 18 total 5G rollouts. The commercial deployment locations include Verizon’s network in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. cities where Ookla has identified an active 5G network, most of them are considered limited availability deployments, via AT&T’s network. Ookla puts the 5G deployments into two categories: commercial availability, meaning that a device is available that any consumer can purchase and use on the 5G network or “limited availability,” meaning that a 5G network is present, but only select users have access to it - so it’s often still in the testing phase. And Ookla is only counting 5G New Radio deployments, not Verizon’s 5G TF or AT&T’s “5G Evolution” markets, which incorporate technologies that most operators identify as advanced LTE. That doesn’t translate to 294 individual 5G sites the locations are identified at a city level. The company has identified 20 operators around the world that have 303 active 5G deployments in 294 locations. As early 5G network deployments get underway, Ookla Speedtest has published an interactive online map of locations where 5G networks can be found.
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