Twelve Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have now selected to move forward with 5G-Advanced.
“The Chinese market experienced abnormally high growth in 3Q 2024. As a result, the China market revenue declined 39 percent YoY for 3Q 2025,” says Dell’Oro’s Dave Bolan, “the revenue for all the other regions increased between 9% and 17% YoY, resulting in a worldwide revenue decline of 2% YoY.
Revenue worldwide excluding China rose 14% YoY, continuing the trend in subscribers migrating to 5G Standalone (5G SA), and revenue worldwide excluding North America declined 5% YoY.
MNOs are moving forward with 5G SA (72 at the last count) and moving forward to take advantage of monetization opportunities.
Network Slicing announcements continued. Of note is Reliance Jio (India), which announced 10 network slices with guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs) at scale.
In October, T-Mobile launched Edge Control, providing enterprises with what Dell’Oro Group refers to as an MNO-provided Mobile Private Network (MPN). This is in response to the challenges of implementing 5G SA Private Wireless networks in the shared CBRS spectrum in the US.
“We have identified 12 MNOs that have commercially launched 5G-Advanced networks (not all this quarter), to take 5G to the next level with new features and performance. MNOs include: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, CTM (Macau), Du (UAE), e& (UAE), HKT (Hong Kong), Singtel (Singapore), Telstra (Australia), T-Mobile (USA), YTL (Malaysia), and Zain (Kuwait),” added Bolan.
Region rankings were: EMEA; Asia Pacific, excluding China; China and North America tied; CALA.
Vendor rankings (with more than 5% share) were: Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, and ZTE.
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