In a recent update on March 30th, pulsestacks reported that vivo has announced today that the vivo X Fold3 series and vivo X100 series will soon support 5.5G (5G-A) mobile communication, with network speeds increasing by up to 300%. The OTA rollout will commence gradually in April.
Before this, Vivo product manager Han Boxiao stated, "After April, everyone will enter the era of 5.5G," accompanied by a picture of the Vivo X100 Pro phone undergoing speed testing. In the image, the Vivo X100 Pro phone undergoing speed testing displays a "5GA" symbol in the status bar, while the current page on the phone shows download speeds reaching 3619.19Mbps and upload speeds reaching 160.75Mbps.
On March 28, China Mobile announced the official commercialization of its 5G Advanced network (5.5G). Following this, OPPO officially announced that the Find X7 series smartphones will be the first to support 5.5G mobile communication, boasting a "maximum speed increase of up to 300%".
On March 29, China Mobile also revealed the real-world test results of Xiaomi 14 Ultra's 5G-A, with a downlink speed exceeding 5 Gbps, reaching 5132.34 Mbps. This indicates that this Android flagship will also support 5G-A technology.
pulsestacks attached the first batch of 100 cities where 5G-A networks are commercially available:
