Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is now available to more than 35 million people across the country.
The company had previously said it aimed to service over 30 million people with 5G in Germany by the end of this year. The telco also said...
Vodafone Germany and Porsche have deployed a private 5G network at the latter’s Weissach Development Center.
The new 5G technology will improve the framework conditions for the strategic development of new vehicle systems and functions at the industrial facility, the two companies said.
When installing...
Vodafone Germany said that the number of 5G-capable devices on its network has more than doubled in the last six months, with around 1.3 million customers now using a 5G smartphone on the Vodafone network, the carrier said in a release.
The telco said that...
The German federal network agency Bundesnetzagentur has already awarded 123 spectrum licenses for private 5G campus networks.
The Federal Network Agency provides the spectrum in the range 3.7-3.8 GHz for local networks. The frequencies are used in particular for Industry 4.0 applications in the fields...
Vodafone Germany announced the establishment of a 5G R&D facility in the city of Dresden, in the state of Saxony.
Vodafone said that the new center will focus on research and development into technologies such as 5G and future 6G systems, as well as specific...
Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is now available to more than 25 million people across the country.
In a release, the telco said it plans to continue to expand the mobile network through more than 7,000 construction projects, including 3,000 5G projects to activate...
Vodafone Germany launched its 5G standalone (SA) network in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and OPPO.
Vodafone upgraded 1,000 sites to SA 5G, covering 170 cities and municipalities via 3.5 GHz spectrum. The new network was initially launched in some major cities including Frankfurt, Berlin,...
Germany operator Vodafone said it has activated 2,200 new 5G base stations at 800 locations across the country, the telco said in a release.
The telco’s technicians have deployed this new infrastructure at nearly 300 towns and cities in Germany.
The telco noted that with this...
LTE-M added to 18,000 Vodafone Germany mobile sites
Germany carrier Vodafone Germany announced the activation of its LTE-M network to cover over 90% of the country, the telco said in a release.
The operator said it has upgraded 18,000 mobile sites in the past few weeks...
German operator Deutsche Telekom said its technical teams have already upgraded a total of 45,000 antennas for 5G services during 2020, the telco said in a release.
Deutsche Telekom also noted that 5G can now already be used by 55 million people in Germany.
“People in...
Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is now available to 16 million people across the country.
In a release, the operator said it has activated the 5G network for another 6 million people since the beginning of November.
Vodafone Germany has turned up more than 5,000...
Germany and Spain are set to receive the Nreal Light mixed reality glasses in spring of 2021
Vodafone Germany announced plans to introduce the Nreal Light glasses for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) over its 5G network, beginning with Germany and Spain in spring 2021....
German operator Vodafone Germany announced that its 5G network currently covers 10 million people across the country.
In a release, the carrier said that its 5G technology has been recently activated in 300 new cities and municipalities across Germany.
"We launched the first 5G network in...
Telefonica Germany, which operates under the O2 brand, will activate its 5G network in five German cities on October 3, the company said in a release.
The telco, owned by Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica, will initially offer commercial 5G services in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt...
German carrier Vodafone is in the process of deploying 5G technology to provide coverage along the country’s main waterways, the telco said in a release.
Vodafone Germany said it has already activated the first 180 5G antennas at 64 locations along federal waterways.
The operator also...
German operator Deutsche Telekom confirmed that its 5G service currently reaches 3,000 towns and municipalities across the country, with nearly 30,000 5G antennas already in operation.
Deutsche Telekom said nearly 18,000 antennas have been upgraded for 5G and integrated into the live network in the...
German carriers Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Vodafone Germany are in the process of expanding 5G coverage across the country through the use of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology.
Deutsche Telekom said that this expansion in 5G coverage will allow more than half of the German...
German company United Internet's CEO, Ralph Dommermuth, said that the construction of subsidiary 1&1 Drillisch’s 5G network would experience delays due to current measures adopted in the country to prevent a further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, local paper Handelsblatt reported.
The executive...
Questions about Huawei and private networks for industrials have marked German 5G rollout
Since German telecommunications operators secured 5G spectrum licenses in June 2019, they started an aggressive commercial strategy to launch 5G services in the country's main urban areas and also announced even more...
German regulators prepping to allocate private 5G spectrum
Finnish vendor Nokia said it expects to provide 5G networks for small and medium-sized German companies following the opening of the application procedure for local firms intending to use 5G frequencies on industrial campuses, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported.
Nokia highlighted...
Berlin, Frankfurt among cities receiving 5G investment
Vodafone Germany said it expects to activate 150 new 5G antennas across Germany before the end of the year. The telco, part of U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone, already operates 60 5G sites and 140 antennas in 40 German...
German operators Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland, and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly deploy mobile communications networks across the country, with the aim of expanding coverage in rural areas and along road, rail and inland waterway transport routes.
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that...
Germany’s Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur announced that the auction for 2 GHz and 3.6 GHz mobile spectrum has come to an end after 52 days and 497 rounds of bidding.
The government confirmed it will raise a total of EUR 6.5 billion ($7.31 billion) for...
German regulator expects to award 41 blocks of spectrum in the 2GHz and 3.6GHz bands
Germany launched its 5G mobile spectrum auction after a court in Cologne rejected legal challenges from participating operators, international press reported.
The process, being organized by the country’s Federal Network Agency...
