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Telefonica Activates First Open RAN Mini-Radio Cells

Telefonica Deutschland, which provides with their smartphones. Inconspicuously software-based and offers significantly
services under the brand name O2, says integrated into the streetscape and greater flexibility in the selection of
it has activated Germany’s first mini- cityscape, they provide every customer manufacturers in the future, as less fixed
radio cells with Open RAN technology in with reliable access to a high-performance infrastructure needs to be replaced or
Munich. The firm said that the move will 4G network in many public places, and in exchanged, since updating the software
provide customers with more capacity the future also 5G,’ said Mallik Rao, CTO at is largely sufficient to bring new services
and higher bandwidths at busy locations Telefonica Deutschland. Open RAN is more onto the network.
in city centers, such as squares, shopping
streets and public transport stops, in the
future. The mini-radio cells, attached to a
building facade in Munich’s Gartnerplatz
district, supplement the 4G/5G mobile
network installed on rooftops in the city
Centre, but do not replace it. In addition
to a power supply, the small cells required
a connection via fiber-optics. The
installation of pure 5G Open RAN mini
radio cells (5G Standalone) will follow later
this year, again in Munich. ‘With our Open
RAN Small Cells, we are launching a model
project for major German cities in Munich.
From the customer’s point of view, they are
a particular benefit where a particularly
large number of people are out and about

Vodafone 5G Reaches Over 50% of Germans

Vodafone Germany has announced that increase network coverage to more than rates of up to 200Mbps and the 3500MHz
coverage of its 5G network now reaches 60 million Germans by 2023. Vodafone is band is being rolled out in high traffic
more than half of the population. Around using the 1800MHz band to provide 5G areas such as stadiums and train stations,
18,000 antennas in 6,000 locations are in densely populated cities, residential where it is able to support speeds of
now live, enabling around 45 million people areas and suburbs with speeds of more 1Gbps. Furthermore, in the Red Bull Arena
in both rural and urban areas to connect than 500Mbps, while the 700MHz range is in Leipzig Vodafone has also activated its
to 5G services. The firm is now aiming to being deployed in rural areas to offer data first 5G antenna in the 26GHz band.

TIM Brasil Stages 3.5GHz VoNR 5G Trial with Huawei

TIM Brasil has teamed up with Chinese end-to-end experience, with the best for eleven lots of spectrum and is obliged
vendor Huawei to test 5G voice-over- and most advanced 5G network in the to offer 5G services in all state capitals and
New Radio (VoNR) services using the country.’ In November 2021 TIM Brasil the Federal District (Distrito Federal) by 31
3.5GHz band. TeleSintese quotes Marco Di successfully bid on 5G-suitable spectrum July 2022.
Costanzo, Network Director at TIM Brasil, in the 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz and 26GHz bands.
as saying: ‘We want to offer a complete, TIM paid BRL1.05 billion (USD190 million)

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