O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 96% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service
German service O2 Telefónica mentioned it has deployed a complete of 1,900 transmitters throughout Germany for the reason that starting, the telco mentioned in a launch. The service, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, additionally mentioned it has accomplished round 4,800 enlargement measures for the reason that starting of the yr to enhance its community infrastructure.
“We’re constantly investing in a extra highly effective O2 community with a view to optimize the day by day digital expertise for our prospects. New smartphone generations and purposes resembling AI instruments are putting ever larger calls for on cell connectivity. By increasing our 5G and 4G networks, we’re making certain that our prospects are all the time properly linked and may exploit the total potential of digital alternatives,” mentioned Matthias Sauder, director of networks at O2 Telefónica
On account of the enlargement measures, O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 96% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service.
Within the final three months, the telco’s technicians have put 5G into operation on the three.6 GHz frequencies in cities resembling Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden, Frankfurt am Foremost, Mannheim, Munich, Essen, Düsseldorf and Cologne.
In October 2023, O2 Telefonica introduced the launch of its 5G Standalone (SA) community within the nation beneath the 5G Plus model. Till this launch, the German telco had been providing 5G providers by means of the NonStandalone (NSA) 5G structure partly by way of its LTE/4G core community.
The service famous that the 5G SA community will allow prospects to have entry to voice-over-new-radio (VoNR) know-how, which allows them to make calls with even higher voice high quality over the 5G community.
O2 Telefónica mentioned it has already been utilizing the 5G SA know-how in 5G campus networks for corporations and public authorities since 2020. With this new launch, the corporate famous that extra corporations in several sectors resembling {industry}, healthcare and the general public sector could have entry to improved connectivity.
The service’s 5G Plus makes use of frequencies within the 700 MHz, 1.8 GHz and three.6 GHz bands.
The telco mentioned it expects its 5G SA service to succeed in full protection in Germany by the tip of 2025.
Final yr, O2 Telefónica and Ericsson had accomplished a proof of idea (PoC) with the goal of paving the best way for the event of 5G cloud RAN know-how in Europe.
Ericsson and O2 Telefonica famous that this collaboration “validates the feasibility” of cloud RAN for enterprise and industry-specific use circumstances in addition to fastened wi-fi entry (FWA) use circumstances.
