Deutsche Telekom announced more than 5,000 antennas are now part of its 5G network as it added around 350 new sites in recent weeks.
Deutsche Telekom’s 5G antennas transmit at the 3.6 GHz frequency. The network can provide up to one gigabit per second for download speeds.
5G — on the 3.6 GHz band — is now available in more than 200 urban centers and cities. New additions to the list are locations from all over Germany. These include Dulmen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Soltau (Lower Saxony), Annaberg-Buchholz (Saxony) and Freising (Bavaria).
Deutsche Telekom’s technical teams are also expanding and improving the 5G network in larger cities. These include Cologne, Düsseldorf and Berlin, for example. As of now, the new 5G sites also support the latest 5G standalone technology. This already applies to all antennas transmitting in the 3.6 gigahertz band.
5G Standalone does not require LTE technology in its core network. It enables a minimum response time of less than 10 milliseconds and so-called network slicing.
Telekom uses the 3.6 GHz frequency for 5G exclusively. The 5G frequency mix includes the longer-wavelength frequency of 2.1 GHz. More than 64,000 5G antennas are operating in the Deutsche Telekom network.
At 2.1 GHz sites, Telekom uses Dynamic Spectrum Sharing that intelligently divides the available frequency spectrum between 4G and 5G users. This results in more capacity for 4G connections as well.
