As the company behind the O2 brand, Telefónica Deutschland is making substantial investments in the future of the telecommunications industry, for example by expanding LTE or building the 5G network. The current results of the network tests by the specialist magazines Chip, Computer Bild and connect underline the good performance of the mobile network3. The company is already one of the market leaders in the implementation of 5G campus networks. At the same time, Telefónica Deutschland has been pushing ahead with its network expansion offensive at full speed for months. Currently, a new LTE station is commissioned or upgraded in the O2 network around every hour. Between January and December 2019, thousands of new stations were built and several million people were additionally supplied with LTE.
In parallel with the LTE expansion, the company is starting to build a 5G network in cities, which will enable private and business customers to enjoy higher speeds, more capacity and intelligent networking of their digital devices in the future. In this way, the company intends to meet the steadily growing demand for mobile data and defend its urban market leadership.
According to current planning, the roll-out of the new 5G mobile standard will begin in the first quarter of 2020, so that customers will be able to benefit from the new technology before the end of this year. The 5G roll-out will start in the five largest German cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt and is expected to be largely completed there by the end of 2021. By the end of 2022, 30 cities with a total of 16 million inhabitants should be covered.
