Frost Radar™: 5G Network Infrastructure, 2025

The global 5G network infrastructure market is significant, measuring in the tens of billions of dollars annually. In the past, the market for cellular network infrastructure had one primary customer type: communications service providers (CSPs). Today, CSPs still make up the largest portion of the market, but enterprises in many different verticals are now exploring private 5G networks and providing a new (albeit small) outlet for network infrastructure. Regardless of whether the customer is a CSP and the network is considered public 5G or the customer is an enterprise with a private 5G network, all three parts of a 5G network—RAN, transport, and core/edge—are essential.

From a field of more than 100 industry participants, Frost & Sullivan independently plotted the top 23 companies in this Frost Radar™ analysis. These companies either lead the market overall, lead a segment, or are thought leaders in certain segments.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.