Counterpoint analyst: global shipments of 5G handsets surpassed 4G for the first time in the second quarter of 2022

CTOnews.com reported on September 16 that Huawei released Mate 20X 5G version on July 26, 2019. On August 5, 2019, ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G was released and went on sale. Since then, domestic 5G mobile phones continue to bring forth the new, and China has also entered the 5G era.

Today, Counterpoint analyst Neil Shah said on the social platform that, as Counterpoint had predicted, global 5G phone shipments reached 49.9% in the second quarter of 2022, successfully surpassing 49.7% of 4G phones (0.4% of 3G phone shipments), a change that shows that consumers are phasing out old devices and opting for 5G phones.

According to public data, in January 2016, China's 5G technology R & D trial was officially launched and implemented in 2016-2018, which is divided into three stages: 5G key technology test, 5G technology scheme verification and 5G system verification. On December 21, 2017, at the 78th plenary meeting of the International Telecommunication Standards Organization (3GPP RAN), the first version of 5G NR was officially frozen and released. On June 13, 2018, the 3GPP 5G NR standard SA (Standalone, independent networking) scheme was officially completed and released at the 80th TSG RAN Plenary session of 3GPP, marking the first truly complete international 5G standard officially released.

According to previous reports by CTOnews.com, on January 14 this year, the China Academy of Information and Communication said that the construction of China's 5G network in 2021 is becoming more and more perfect. In 2021, 5G mobile phone shipments in China reached 266 million units, an increase of 63.5% over the same period last year, accounting for 75.9% of mobile phone shipments in the same period, far higher than the global average of 40.7%.