Vodafone Germany launched its 5G SA community in 2022 in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Oppo

German telco Vodafone mentioned it has accomplished greater than 1,500 development tasks within the LTE and 5G networks through the third quarter of the yr.

In a launch, Vodafone mentioned {that a} whole of 190 new websites had been put into operation to enhance cellular protection with LTE and 5G and shut useless spots. Vodafone carried out an additional 1,000 modernization measures at 900 current places throughout Germany. These development measures embody 290 websites that had been outfitted with 5G and 23 websites obtained LTE, the telco mentioned.

Over 26,706 cell phone stations now present 99.9% of the inhabitants with cellular communications throughout Germany, it added. Additionally, 16,446 stations at present supplies 5G protection to 92% of the inhabitants. Vodafone Germany famous that almost all of those websites already function with 5G Standalone (5G SA) know-how.

Vodafone additionally mentioned it has accomplished a complete of 556 large-scale development tasks in its mounted community through the third quarter of the yr.

“Vodafone has put in much more high-performance fiber optic cables within the cable community in lots of locations. This brings fiber optic cables even nearer to prospects. The community is now far more secure for every particular person buyer, particularly throughout peak instances when many individuals are streaming, taking part in on-line and browsing on the similar time. 270,000 cable households in 140 cities and districts in Germany – together with Berlin, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Bonn and Hamburg – are benefiting from these modernization measures,” the telco mentioned.

Vodafone Germany had launched its 5G SA community in 2022 in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Oppo. For the 5G enlargement, Vodafone is at present counting on frequencies within the 3.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 700 MHz bands in giant city areas, residential areas and suburbs and rural areas throughout Germany.

Vodafone initially launched its 5G community in Germany in 2019, utilizing 3.5 GHz frequencies that it acquired from Telefónica in 2018.

Vodafone beforehand mentioned it has put in a complete of 100 5G websites utilizing current promoting columns in Düsseldorf.

Vodafone Germany famous {that a} additional 50 promoting columns will likely be outfitted with 5G within the subsequent two years, including that this initiative ensures even higher reception and higher community stability and on the similar time solves a significant drawback that also exists all through Germany with the enlargement of the 5G community in inner-city areas: the prolonged seek for places for brand new cell phone stations and the prolonged approval procedures.

The Vodafone 5G promoting columns have obtained a location certificates from Germany’s Federal Community Company to show their secure operation. The put in 5G antennas, which had been inbuilt cooperation with Ericsson, every serve a radius of round 400 meters round every promoting column. On common, there are at present virtually 6,000 connections per column with 5G-capable smartphones daily and a mean of round 200 gigabytes of knowledge per column flows by way of Vodafone’s 5G community each week.