5G SA: Telefónica now has 60 5G cities and is starting standalone

Telefónica announced at the end of March that it wanted to accelerate the 5G expansion in Germany. As the network operator announced today, the number of cities supplied with 5G is now 60 and has therefore doubled within a few weeks. In addition, the 5G standalone core network was put into operation.

The last intermediate result at the end of March was 1,000 5G antennas in 30 cities. With now 1,300 5G antennas for 60 cities, Telefónica is getting a little closer to its goal of building a nationwide 5G network by 2025. All current 5G antennas only operate on the more powerful 3.6 GHz frequencies.

The calculation is currently not on

By the end of this year, the company wants to be able to supply over 30 percent of the population with 5G. To this end, 5,000 more 5G antennas in the 3.6 GHz range are to be installed over the coming months. At the end of March, however, there was still talk of 6,000 more 5G antennas by the end of the year, so that with the last 300 new antennas, 5G actually remained. With linear progress, Telefónica would have to increase the pace of expansion significantly, because with the 300 additional antennas installed within the last two months, the target of 6,000 antennas by the end of the year would clearly be missed.

New 5G in five federal states

The last expansion phase included 5G locations in Augsburg and Ingolstadt (Bavaria), Aachen, Gelsenkirchen and Schwerte (North Rhine-Westphalia) as well as Sindelfingen, Affalterbach and Marbach am Neckar (Baden-Württemberg). The first 5G transmitters are also broadcasting in Wiesbaden (Hesse) and Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate). Specific figures for the number of 5G antennas are available for Berlin (& gt; 250), Hamburg (& gt; 120) as well as Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart (each & gt; 100).

All 5G cities from O2

Aachen, Affalterbach, Altdorf near Nuremberg, Ansbach, Augsburg, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bochum, Bonn, Dachau, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Erlangen, Essen, Fellbach, Feucht, Flensburg, Frankfurt, Fürth, Gelsenkirchen, Gerlingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Herne, Herzogenaurach, Ingolstadt, Ismaning, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Landsberg am Lech, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Leonberg, Mainz, Mannheim, Marbach am Neckar, Mönchengladbach, Munich, Münster, Neubiberg, Neuhausen ob Eck, Nuremberg, Oberasbach, Potsdam, Rosenheim, Röthenbach an der Pegnitz, Rückersdorf, Schwerte, Sindelfingen, Steinheim an der Murr, Stuttgart, Unterföhring, Waiblingen, Weinstadt, Wendelstein (Forst Kleinschwarzenlohe), Wiesbaden, Wuppertal and Zirndorf.

700 MHz for 5G in the area

Apart from the 3.6 GHz antennas, primarily in cities, the frequencies at 700 MHz and 1,800 MHz are to distribute the new standard across the board in the future. Rural areas in particular are to be supplied with 5G exclusively at 700 MHz, while Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is intended for the parallel transmission of 4G and 5G at 1,800 MHz -h2 “id =” section_5gsakernnetz_in_betrieb_haben “> 5G-SA core network put into operation

In March, Telefónica had already given the prospect of starting the summer after Vodafone with 5G standalone (5G SA). The network operator has now taken the biggest step in this direction with the commissioning of the 5G standalone core network. In future there should be no more dependencies on the former 4G core network.

The new 5G standalone servers in the Munich data center are already connected to 5G antennas in the O2 live network, explains Telefónica. 5G SA should score points in particular with the even lower latency times of a few milliseconds and higher data rates in the gigabit range, which result from the bundling of different 5G frequency bands (carrier aggregation). The new 5G core network is to be implemented nationwide in all Telefónica data centers by summer 2021.