O2 Telefónica now reaches greater than 97 p.c of the German inhabitants with its 5G service.
German provider O2 Telefónica stated it has deployed a complete of 500 5G transmitters throughout Germany within the first quarter of the yr, the telco stated in a launch. The agency, owned by Spanish telco Telefónica, additionally stated it has accomplished round 1,600 growth measures because the starting of the yr to enhance its community infrastructure. The growth targeted on bettering community protection in beforehand underserved communities and putting in extra capability.
Alexander Seitz, director regional planning, supply and optimization at O2 Telefónica, stated: “We’ve massive plans for the growth yr 2025. As a result of Germany wants sturdy networks. With the growth program, we’re guaranteeing that our clients throughout the nation have even higher community high quality for his or her cellular telephony and information utilization. We’re establishing new websites to deliver the quick O2 community to extra households and communities. Higher reception alongside visitors routes and railroad strains ensures that customers and enterprise clients at all times keep related, even when they’re on the transfer.”
Because of the growth measures, O2 Telefónica now reaches greater than 97% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service. Its technicians have expanded the 5G community in quite a few main cities resembling Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Essential, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Leipzig and Magdeburg.
In October 2023, O2 Telefónica introduced the launch of its 5G Standalone (SA) community within the nation below the 5G Plus model. Till this launch, the German telco had been providing 5G companies via the NonStandalone (NSA) 5G structure partly by way of its LTE/4G core community. The provider famous that the 5G SA community permits clients to have entry to voice-over-new-radio (VoNR) know-how, which permits 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 know-how in 5G campus networks for firms and public authorities since 2020. With this new launch, the corporate famous that extra firms in several sectors resembling business, healthcare and the general public sector could have entry to improved connectivity.
The provider’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. Telefónica Germany has lately chosen Amazon Net Providers (AWS) as its cloud supplier for community workloads.
The multi-year settlement, signed throughout Cellular World Congress (MWC) 2025, builds on the earlier deployment of O2 Telefónica’s 5G SA Core on AWS in July 2024. As a part of this growth, O2 Telefónica will prolong its 5G core implementation on AWS, deploying the 5G core information airplane inside its information facilities utilizing AWS Outposts racks to help network-intensive workloads. Moreover, the corporate will start deploying IMS voice companies on AWS Graviton processors this yr.
O2 Telefónica will even use a unified set of AWS companies, together with Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, to watch its whole 5G community.
