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Vodafone 5G’s advertising mast has received a location certificate from the German Federal Network Agency.
German telecommunications operator Vodafone has announced that it has installed a total of 100 5G sites using existing advertising masts in Düsseldorf.
“Düsseldorf’s advertising masts, which have been part of the city landscape for decades, are undergoing a technological revival. The pilot project shows how existing structures can be modernized and mobile networks can be expanded in a space-saving manner,” said Stephan Schneider, Vodafone’s head of political communication in NRW.
Vodafone Germany said 50 more masts would be rolled out with 5G over the next two years, adding that the initiative would further improve reception and make the network more stable, while also resolving a major problem that remains with the expansion of 5G networks in urban areas across Germany – the lengthy search for locations for new mobile towers and lengthy approval procedures.
The company highlighted that the three 5G antennas and all of the technology, which are mounted on the large masts of traditional mobile phone base stations, are integrated into the basilica-shaped roof and concrete body of the 4.79-meter-high, 1.62-meter-wide advertising pole. The entire construction process of such a 5G advertising pole takes less than half the time compared to traditional mobile phone base stations, it added.
Vodafone’s 5G masts have received a location certificate from the German Federal Network Agency to prove their safe operation. The installed 5G antennas, built in collaboration with Ericsson, serve an area with a radius of approximately 400 meters from each mast. There are currently an average of 6,000 5G-enabled smartphone connections per mast per day, and an average of around 200 gigabytes of data flowing through Vodafone’s 5G network per week.
Vodafone had previously announced that it had completed more than 1,200 construction projects in the first quarter of this year, effectively expanding its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network.
Vodafone said it has commissioned 155 new mobile base stations and installed around 1,100 additional antennas for LTE, 5G and 5G SA to boost broadband capacity.
Regarding the expansion of its new 5G SA network, the company said that around 40% of construction work in the first three months of 2024 was used to extend this network across the country. As a result, around half of Germany’s population is now covered by Vodafone’s 5G SA network.
Vodafone Germany has partnered with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Oppo to launch its 5G SA network in 2022. Vodafone is currently using frequencies in the 3.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 700 MHz bands for its 5G expansion across metropolitan areas, residential areas, suburban and rural areas across Germany.
Vodafone was the first to launch a 5G network in Germany in 2019, using the 3.5GHz frequencies it acquired from Telefonica in 2018.
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