Deutsche Telekom famous that round 99% of households can already entry its 5G community
In sum – what to know:
132 new websites added – Deutsche Telekom expanded its community footprint throughout key German states, together with North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, and Baden-Württemberg.
533 current places upgraded – Capability expansions included first-time 5G activation at 128 websites, driving larger information throughput and decreased latency.
99% 5G family protection – The provider now combines low- and mid-band frequencies for nationwide attain and gigabit speeds.
German telecom operator Deutsche Telekom expanded its cellular community in August including a complete of 132 new cellular radio websites throughout the nation.
In a launch, the operator additionally mentioned it has additionally elevated capability at 533 current websites throughout the month. 5G expertise was related for the primary time at 128 of those websites.
Most new places have been commissioned in North Rhine-Westphalia (24), adopted by Bavaria (23) and Baden-Württemberg (22). When it comes to capability expansions at current places, North Rhine-Westphalia led the record (151), adopted by Baden-Württemberg (112) and Bavaria (91).
The telco additionally famous that round 99% of households can already entry Deutsche Telekom’s 5G community, whereas LTE protection at present reaches virtually 100% of households throughout Germany.
Deutsche Telekom mentioned it’s constructing an ultra-high-capacity community. A mix of measures will double the capability of the community, the telco mentioned, including that 90% of the places will supply a obtain capability of 1 gigabit per second per cell.
The telco highlighted that every one places will use low-band frequencies (700, 800, and 900 MHz) sooner or later, as they provide lengthy vary and good community protection – even in buildings. “They type the idea for seamless cellular community protection. 90% of the places may even obtain mid-band frequencies (1,500 MHz, 1,800 MHz, and a couple of.1 GHz). These allow excessive transmission charges and quick response instances. They’re the important thing efficiency drivers within the cellular community. The three.6 GHz band shall be used particularly at site visitors hubs,” Deutsche Telekom added.
The telco beforehand highlighted that 5G antennas on the three.6 GHz frequency are significantly highly effective, as a result of they’re virtually solely related to the transport community with a ten Gbps connection through fiber optics. The telco famous that the three.6 GHz frequency band dietary supplements the 5G frequencies within the 700 MHz and a couple of.1 GHz vary, that are already in use nationwide within the Deutsche Telekom community. Particularly in densely populated areas, the three.6 GHz frequencies guarantee significantly excessive obtain speeds and easy cell phone protection, the provider mentioned.
Deutsche Telekom had beforehand made personal 5G out there in millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum at 26 GHz for the primary time in Germany. It claimed the band permits for round-trip latencies of three to 4 milliseconds and obtain and add information charges of greater than 4 and two gigabits per second, respectively. It’s providing mmWave assist as a part of its ‘campus community’ supply, which has till now used the devoted 3.7-3.8 GHz mid-band spectrum in Germany.
