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| 2016 || July || Policy || {{w|FCC}} || The United States {{w|Federal Communications Commission}} (FCC) frees up vast amounts of {{w|bandwidth}} in underused high-band spectrum for 5G. The Spectrum Frontiers Proposal (SFP) doubles the amount of millimeter-wave unlicensed spectrum to 14GHz and creates four times the amount of flexible, mobile-use spectrum the FCC has licensed to date.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://wireless.engineering.nyu.edu/fcc-spectrum-frontier-proposal-updated/|title=FCC Spectrum Frontier Proposal {{!}} NYU WIRELESS|date=2016-07-15|work=NYU WIRELESS|access-date=2017-05-18}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2016 || || Testing || {{w|AT&T}} || {{w|AT&T}} starts conducting 5G field trials with mmWave spectrum.<ref name="ddss">{{cite web |title=The 5G era in the US |url=https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=4cbbdb475f24b3c5f5a93a2796a4aa28&download |website=gsmaintelligence.com |accessdate=20 January 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2017 || January || Testing || {{w|Turkcell}} || {{w|Turkcell}}, the largest mobile phone operator in Turkey, completes a 24.7 Gb/s 5G trial with {{w|Ericsson}}.<ref name="5G Availability Around the World"/> || {{w|Turkey}}
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| 2017 || August || || Telecom Regulatory Authority of India || The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India releases a {{w|PDF}}[https://main.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/presentations_&_cv/Day-2_24Aug2017/Session3_spectrum%20Plg/5G%20spectrum%20stratergy_Bharat%20Bhatia.pdf] that outlines the 5G standard draft and shows a timeframe for when 5G should be deployed around the world.<ref name="5G Availability Around the World"/> || {{w|India}}
| 2018 || September || Program launch || {{w|FCC}} || The United States {{w|Federal Communications Commission}} announces its 5G FAST Plan in an effort to advance the country’s position among the countries that have deployed 5G networks. Part of this plan includes spectrum auctions.<ref name="The Top Countries with 5G Deployments and Trials">{{cite web |title=The Top Countries with 5G Deployments and Trials |url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/5g/definitions/the-top-countries-with-5g-deployments-and-trials/ |website=sdxcentral.com |accessdate=20 January 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2018 || September || {{w|Research and development}} Testing || {{w|NTT Docomo}} || {{w|NTT Docomo}} successfully achieves 25–27 Gbps download speeds in a 5G trial with {{w|Mitsubishi Electric}}.<ref name="5G Availability Around the World"/> || {{w|Japan}}
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| 2018 || September || Partnership || {{w|Nokia}}, {{w|Turkcell}} || Turkish mobile phone operator {{w|Turkcell}} announces an agreement with {{w|Nokia}} to develop 5G technologies.<ref name="5G Availability Around the World"/> || {{w|Turkey}}
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| 2018 || October 1 || Network launch || {{w|Verizon}} || {{w|Verizon}} launches new 5G fixed–wireless access (FWA) service, starting in certain neighbourhoods of {{w|Houston}}, {{w|Indianapolis}}, {{w|Los Angeles}} and {{w|Sacramento}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Verizon’s new 5G fixed–wireless access proposition aims to attract cable cord-cutters |url=https://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Comments/Verizon-FWA-offer-RDMB0/ |website=analysysmason.com |accessdate=20 January 2020}}</ref> The company is the first to have a non-standards-based deployment, that is actually a fixed broadband network.<ref name="The Top Countries with 5G Deployments and Trials"/> || {{w|United States}}
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| 2018 || November || Testing || {{w|Samsung}}, {{w|Turkcell}} || Turkish mobile phone operator {{w|Turkcell}} trials 5G fixed wireless access solutions with {{w|Samsung}} in {{w|Istanbul}}.<ref name="5G Availability Around the World"/> || {{w|Turkey}}
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| 2018 || December || Network launch || {{w|AT&T}} || {{w|AT&T}} becomes the first United States carrier to launch a standards-based mobile 5G network servicing a dozen cities, albeit without any 5G-enabled devices.<ref name="The Top Countries with 5G Deployments and Trials"/> || {{w|United States}}
