28.12.2020 – 12:04
Deutsche Telekom AG
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Network expansion 2020: significant growth in 5G and fiber optics
- 45.000 Antennen fit gemacht für 5G, zusätzlich 5.000 neue Antennen im Netz - Neuer Höchstwert beim Datenvolumen im Mobilfunk - Highspeed 5G jetzt in 26 Städten - Festnetz als Rückgrat in Corona-Zeiten - Schlagzahl 2020 verdoppelt: Glasfaser für rund 600.000 weitere Haushalte ermöglicht
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5G and fiber optics determined the network expansion of Telekom in 2020. Despite Corona, the company has continued to massively expand its landline and mobile network. 5G can already be used by 55 million people in Germany. Telekom’s technology teams have made around 45,000 antennas fit for 5G. The LTE network also continued to grow in 2020 and now supplies 98.6 percent of the population. Telekom has hung over 5,000 additional antennas this year. In mobile communications as a whole, the data volume rose to a new high, as expected. In 2020, 1.6 billion gigabytes of data went through the network. The data volume over 5G is also increasing month by month.
Telekom’s landline network has proven itself to be a strong backbone in Corona times and has carried Germany safely through the crisis. Home office and homeschooling have led to an increase in the use of telephony and data. The network was able to handle this volume at any time without any problems. The call volume during the lockdown phase was on average around 50 percent above the normal value. The data volume in the fixed network also increased by an average of 30 to 40 percent. The focus of the fixed network expansion was on fiber optics. This year Telekom more than doubled the number of new households that can get FTTH to around 600,000. In total, around two million households have the option of booking a fiber optic connection.
2020 was the 5G year
The 5G expansion dominated this year. Telekom has made 45,000 antennas fit for 5G in the last twelve months. People in over 4,700 cities and communities benefit from this. The majority of the antennas use the 2.1 GHz frequency, in large cities as well as in smaller communities and rural areas. And that throughout Germany. For example, the offshore island of Helgoland and the Zugspitze are also supplied with 5G.
26 large cities with high-speed 5G
In addition, there is now 5G on the 3.6 GHz frequency in 26 cities. Telekom is thus offering Highspeed 5G in places where many people move around in confined spaces. More than 1000 antennas are in live operation on this frequency. They operate in Aachen, Augsburg, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt / Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Jena, Kiel, Cologne, Leipzig, Ludwigsburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Schwerin , Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and Wolfsburg. They also bring 5G to places such as the Allianz Arena in Munich or Frankfurt Airport.
Every second contract or contract extension is currently concluded with a 5G device.
UMTS becomes 5G
Telekom’s 5G expansion will continue in 2021. Overall, the company wants to provide around 80 percent of people in Germany with 5G by the end of 2021. Old 3G locations are becoming modern and faster 5G stations. All UMTS locations in Germany will be upgraded with 5G by the middle of the year. In the few places where the anchor frequencies do not allow this, LTE comes.
Fixed line: Even more bandwidth for 4 million households
Telekom’s fixed network stood for stability in the Corona crisis this year. The fast connection for households and companies and the expansion strategy of recent years has paid off when working and learning from home. In total, over 33 million households in Germany can now book a connection with up to 100 Mbit / s. For more than four million households, Telekom was able to increase the bandwidth again this year by laying fiber optics and upgrading the technology. The next step in the expansion is now to lay the fiber optics inside the house. This year, Telekom has given around 600,000 more households the option of using fiber optic connections (FTTH). That is more than twice as many as in the previous year (270,000). Around two million more are to be added annually on average from 2021. The group is thus massively increasing the pace of expansion. Telekom has already laid a total of 575,000 kilometers of fiber optics in Germany.
Expand networks together
In addition to its own economic expansion and the subsidized expansion, Telekom is increasingly relying on collaborations. On the one hand, it offers its broadband network to partners for use (wholesale). On the other hand, Telekom also cooperates to offer its products on the networks of other companies (Wholebuy).
Telekom is already cooperating with other companies such as Deutsche Glasfaser, Süwag or Stadtwerke Münster for future FTTH coverage. In doing so, she often breaks new ground with partners. This is shown by the founding of Glasfaser Nordwest together with EWE and the public-private partnership in the gigabit region of Stuttgart.
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