5G Advanced R&D tracker 2H 2024

Data coverage

The tracker includes more than 170 entries from over 200 organisations worldwide, including national governments, operators, vendors and academic organisations. Entries include government policy, R&D programmes, labs, testbeds, R&D partnerships, technological developments and memorandums of understanding. Each entry records information about the participants involved, a summary of the R&D, the region and country, dates of announcements, funding amounts, timelines and any KPIs mentioned.

The document features five sheets.

• 5G Advanced tracker. This worksheet contains detailed data on 5G Advanced R&D plans and projects.
• Keyword taxonomy. This sheet contains our categorisations of specific key words.
• Tech development stages. This sheet explains the keywords used to classify the stages of technology development for projects in the tracker.
• Glossary. This sheet contains explanations on acronyms used for organisation and technologies.
• List of all actors. This final sheet outlines all actors mentioned in our tracker.

This tracker also includes filters for easy navigation and a three-tiered taxonomy of keywords to allow streamlined sorting of information. It also includes a navigation guide for user ease.