MmWave to Be Enabled in 43% of 5G Phones by 2026: ABI White Paper

Shipments of millimeter-wave-enabled handsets will grow from 14% of 5G smartphones sold in 2021 to 43% by 2026, reported ABI Research Thursday in a white paper. It projects 5G smartphone shipments will top a billion handsets globally in 2024, expanding to 1.3 billion in 2026, of which nearly 560 million will be mmWave-capable. The “impetus” behind mobile mmWave “continues to build with a number of regions and countries targeting deployments, broadening across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and gaining support from a growing number of chipset suppliers,” said ABI analyst David McQueen. “This ecosystem expansion, along with resolving the inherent complexity and high costs of implementation, will aid the extensive growth of 5G mmWave smartphones.”