O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 95% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service
German service O2 Telefónica stated it has deployed a complete of 1,200 transmitters throughout Germany through the first half of the yr, the telco stated in a launch.
The corporate additionally stated it has accomplished round 3,400 enlargement measures within the first half of 2024 to enhance its community infrastructure.
“With our community enlargement, we’re strengthening the digital spine within the nation. We’re offering our 45 million clients with an much more highly effective community in order that they will surf and make calls at any time with none issues – each within the metropolis and within the countryside or at main occasions,” stated Matthias Sauder, community enlargement supervisor at O2 Telefónica.
On account of the enlargement measures, O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 95% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service.
The corporate affords new 5G transmitters in main cities corresponding to Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Bremen, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Rostock, amongst others.
In October 2023, O2 Telefonica introduced the launch of its 5G Standalone (SA) community within the nation underneath the 5G Plus model. Till this launch, the German telco had been providing 5G companies by means of the NonStandalone (NSA) 5G structure partly by way of its LTE/4G core community.
The service famous that the brand new community will allow clients to have entry to voice-over-new-radio (VoNR) expertise, which allows them to make calls with even higher voice high quality over the 5G community.
O2 Telefónica stated it has already been utilizing the 5G SA expertise in 5G campus networks for corporations and public authorities since 2020. With this new launch, the corporate famous that extra corporations in several sectors corresponding to {industry}, healthcare and the general public sector may 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 stated it expects its 5G SA service to succeed in full protection in Germany by the top of 2025.
Final yr, O2 Telefónica and Ericsson had accomplished a proof of idea (PoC) with the purpose of paving the best way for the event of 5G cloud RAN expertise in Europe.
Ericsson and O2 Telefonica famous that this collaboration “validates the feasibility” of cloud RAN for enterprise and industry-specific use instances in addition to fastened wi-fi entry (FWA) use instances.