- Capability group
- Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies
- Domain
- Critical Technology · Hard Power
- Identifier
- factbase.org/cap/QRYJVA801Z
- Reference
- Wireless Wikipedia
Papers
3.2k
2020–2024
Paper growth
−13%
2020–24 on 2015–19
Patent families
312.2k
2020–2024
Filed abroad
46%
families in more than one office
In the framework
What the capability covers and what it leaves to others, and the indicators it will be measured by.
Bounds
Covers wireless technology and standards position; deployed mobile networks belong to Strategic Infrastructure, spectrum allocation to governance, and vendor position in network equipment reads at the make and control layers.
Lineage
Carried from v0.0 (formerly Advanced radiofrequency communication) with the same identifier; recast from a definition of wireless transfer to the capacity to lead the generational transitions where national position is actually contested.
Indicators
- standard-essential patent share in mobile standardsPatents
- network equipment vendor market sharePending
- next-generation trial deploymentsPending
Research
Papers classified to the capability, by year and by the nation of their authors' institutions, 2020–2024. Read from the v0.0 research topic Advanced radiofrequency communication.
Papers by year
The five leading nations, papers by year
Share of papers, 2020–2024
Of papers with a known author nation; 32% have none and are left out.
- 1China24.1%662 papers
- 2India13.2%361 papers
- 3United States9.6%262 papers
- 4United Kingdom3.9%106 papers
- 5South Korea3.2%89 papers
- 6Japan3.1%84 papers
- 7Canada3.0%82 papers
- 8Germany2.3%63 papers
- 9Saudi Arabia2.1%57 papers
- 10France1.7%47 papers
Leading institutions, 2020–2024
By fractional count: each paper divided among its authors' institutions.
- 1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications27fractional papers
- 2Xidian University25fractional papers
- 3University of Electronic Science and Technology of China22fractional papers
- 4Tsinghua University22fractional papers
- 5Southeast University18fractional papers
- 6Beijing Jiaotong University17fractional papers
- 7Zhejiang University14fractional papers
- 8Beijing Institute of Technology14fractional papers
- 9Northwestern Polytechnical University11fractional papers
- 10Shanghai Jiao Tong University10fractional papers
Patents
Patent families by the nation of origin of their applicants and their earliest priority year, from the CPC and IPC classes the capability is read from. 2025 onwards is incomplete: families are published 18 months after priority.
Families by priority year
The five leading origins, families by year
36,566 applicants filed here in 2015–2024; the five largest held 22% of families (HHI 151 of 10,000: unconcentrated).
Share of families by origin, 2020–2024
- 1China55.6%173,626 families
- 2United States16.5%51,644 families
- 3South Korea10.2%31,974 families
- 4Japan6.8%21,152 families
- 5Finland2.4%7,478 families
- 6Sweden2.2%6,797 families
- 7Germany1.3%4,083 families
- 8Taiwan0.9%2,943 families
- 9Singapore0.7%2,213 families
- 10France0.6%1,871 families
Applicants filing most internationally, 2015–2024
Families filed in more than one office, by applicant as the offices name them.
- 1HUAWEI TECH CO LTD28,187international families
- 2QUALCOMM INC21,558international families
- 3SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD13,270international families
- 4ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M12,761international families
- 5LG ELECTRONICS INC10,186international families
- 6ZTE CORP9,293international families
- 7NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY8,260international families
- 8BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD8,011international families
- 9GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD7,618international families
- 10NTT DOCOMO INC7,182international families
Classification read
- H04W Wireless communication networks, including mobile standards · 11.1m documents
- H04B7/00 Radio transmission: multi-antenna, relay and satellite links · 1.4m documents
- H04L5/00 Multi-carrier resource allocation and pilot signalling · 1.9m documents
- H04L27/26 Multi-carrier modulation such as OFDM · 491.4k documents
- H04L1/18 Automatic retransmission protocols · 516k documents
Shares inventions with
Capabilities whose classes the same families also fall in, by overlap (Jaccard).
- Protective Cybersecurity Technologies18,625 families · 0.059
- Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies14,396 families · 0.046
- Resilient & Infrastructure-Independent Networks7,144 families · 0.028
- Satellite & Constellation Technologies6,948 families · 0.027
Companies
50 companies in this capability, across 8 regions. The leading 12:
- 1HuaweiWorld's largest RAN vendor and the top holder of 5G standard-essential patents, leading 3GPP contributions and 5G-Advanced/6G research.Manufacture
- 2QualcommLeading designer of 4G/5G modems and RF front-end chips (Snapdragon X series) and one of the largest licensors of cellular standard-essential patents.Design
- 3EricssonLeading Western 5G RAN and core vendor and major SEP holder, central to 3GPP standardisation and 6G research.Manufacture
- 4NokiaTop-three mobile network equipment vendor with Nokia Bell Labs 6G research and a large cellular patent licensing business (Nokia Technologies).Manufacture
- 5Samsung ElectronicsSupplies 5G/vRAN network equipment, Exynos modems and handsets, ranks among top 5G SEP holders and leads Korean 6G research.Manufacture
- 6ZTEFourth-largest global RAN vendor and a top-five 5G SEP declarant, building base stations, cores and 5G chipsets.Manufacture
- 7MediaTekLargest smartphone SoC vendor by volume with Dimensity 5G modems and an active role in 5G NTN and 6G standards work.Design
- 8NTT Docomo (NTT Group)Japan's largest mobile operator and a top international wireless patent applicant, driving 3GPP work, Open RAN (OREX) and 6G research with NTT's IOWN.Research
- 9LG ElectronicsMajor LTE/5G standard-essential patent holder and international patent applicant with ongoing 6G terahertz research despite exiting handsets.Research
- 10SpaceXOperates the largest LEO broadband constellation and the Starlink direct-to-cell service, defining non-terrestrial network deployment at scale.Operation
- 11BroadcomLeading supplier of Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth chips and FBAR RF filters used in flagship 5G smartphones.Design
- 12XiaomiThird-largest smartphone maker and a top international patent applicant in wireless, with a growing cellular SEP portfolio.Design