Deutsche Telekom mentioned its 5G community presently covers 96% of the German inhabitants

Deutsche Telekom (DT) expects to launch its 5G Standalone (5G SA) providing in Germany subsequent yr, the telco mentioned in a press release.

In a round-up of its community achievements throughout this yr, Srini Gopalan, CEO of Telekom Deutschland, which is DT’s home operator, mentioned the provider is aiming at providing 5G SA to non-public prospects.

The chief famous that Deutsche Telekom’s enterprise prospects are already utilizing the expertise with capabilities reminiscent of community slicing for stay TV transmission of media or in 5G campus networks for trade and analysis.

The provider additionally highlighted that its 5G community presently covers 96% of the German inhabitants. Deutsche Telekom’s 5G community has 80,000 5G antennas, together with over 10,000 antennas transmitting on the three.6 GHz band in additional than 800 cities and municipalities throughout the nation.

Gopolan mentioned that DT’s 5G expertise is presently providing obtain speeds of as much as 1 Gbps and that the telco expects to succeed in 99% of the inhabitants in Germany with 5G by 2025.

The chief additionally famous that DT started the deployment of Open RAN (O-RAN) in Germany in December, in collaboration with Nokia and Fujitsu. The telco expects to have 3,000 O-RAN appropriate antennas by the top of 2026.

Additionally, relating to the usage of synthetic intelligence (AI), Deutsche Telekom mentioned it’s presently utilizing the expertise in community enlargement. For instance, in community planning with the T-Automotive to measure and calculate optimum fiber optic enlargement routes or in cellular communications, the place AI helps the telco to investigate and consider cell utilization and capability utilization. The German operator is presently creating its personal massive language mannequin for telco-specific purposes along with SK Telekom.

Claudia Nemat, board member for expertise and innovation at Deutsche Telekom, mentioned: “We need to exploit the big alternatives provided by AI with out being naive concerning the dangers. We need to educate individuals about each. And be a expertise pioneer on the similar time. By creating and utilizing human-centered AI and letting our prospects take part in it.”

In August, Deutsche Telekom mentioned it has already related 83% of all 5G cellular communications areas nationwide with fiber optics.

The telco additionally mentioned that greater than 10,000 5G cellular websites now have fiber optic connections with a velocity of 10 Gbits, accounting for round 40% of all 5G cellular radio programs. By 2026, Deutsche Telekom will equip greater than 28,000 cellular phone websites with  high-speed connections at 10 Gbits.

The telco additionally highlighted that 5G antennas on the three.6 GHz frequency are  notably highly effective as a result of they’re nearly solely related to the transport community with a ten Gbits connection through fiber optics.

The telco added that the three.6 GHz frequency band dietary supplements the 5G frequencies within the 700 MHz and a pair of.1 GHz vary, that are already in use nationwide within the Deutsche Telekom community. Particularly in densely populated areas, the three.6 GHz frequencies guarantee notably excessive obtain speeds and easy cell phone protection, the provider mentioned.