O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 98% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service
In sum, what to know:
Over 1,000 websites upgraded to 5G – O2 Telefonica has upgraded greater than 1,000 cellular websites with 5G this yr as a part of a broader infrastructure push throughout Germany.
3,500 whole growth actions – The corporate accomplished 3,500 measures to spice up community high quality, together with 1,700 capability upgrades and 200 new cellular websites.
5G now covers 98% of Germans – The telco now gives 5G entry to greater than 98% of the inhabitants, together with rural areas and transit routes, aiming for a stronger, extra inclusive community.
German service O2 Telefónica stated it has upgraded greater than 1,000 cellular websites with 5G expertise because the starting of the yr, the telco stated in a launch.
The service, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, additionally stated it has accomplished round 3,500 growth measures because the starting of the yr to enhance its community infrastructure.
Because of the growth measures, O2 Telefonica now reaches greater than 98% of the German inhabitants with its 5G service.
“We’re sustaining the excessive tempo of growth to deliver Germany ahead digitally. Whether or not within the metropolis, in rural areas or on the transfer by prepare or automobile, we’re investing the place our prospects want our community… We need to create an much more highly effective community for everybody,” stated Mallik Rao, Chief Expertise and Enterprise Officer at O2 Telefónica.
The telco lately carried out greater than 1,700 capability upgrades at its 28,000 cell phone websites throughout Germany. The telco additionally put 200 new cell phone websites into operation throughout the nation because the starting of the yr.
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 5G SA community will allow prospects 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 firms and public authorities since 2020. With this new launch, the corporate famous that extra firms in several sectors corresponding to {industry}, healthcare and the general public sector could 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 achieve full protection in Germany by the top of 2025.
O2 Telefónica and Ericsson had beforehand accomplished a proof of idea (PoC) with the intention 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 circumstances in addition to mounted wi-fi entry (FWA) use circumstances.
The telco 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 assist 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 observe its complete 5G community.