Vodafone Germany begin utilizing Ericsson’s compact 5G antennas

Vodafone Germany famous that the primary compact antenna is on a parking storage in Düsseldorf

German operator Vodafone Germany has began to deploy compact base stations developed by Swedish vendor Ericsson to spice up 5G protection within the nation.

In a launch, Vodafone Germany famous that the primary compact antenna is on a parking storage in Düsseldorf. The telco stated it goals to deploy as much as 500 compact antennas to spice up 5G protection throughout Germany by the tip of 2025.

Marc Hoelzer, head of community growth at Vodafone, stated: “Sturdy winds put stress on the antenna surfaces mounted on roofs. The extra cell phone antennas there are up there, the upper the wind load. This additionally will increase the necessities for wind resistance and statics, in order that not each current roof location could be upgraded with energetic 5G antennas. The seek for new cell phone places on roofs is a serious problem for community enlargement in Germany.”

Vodafone famous {that a} cell phone station can provide a radius of as much as one kilometer with 5G, including that these energetic 5G antennas are normally mounted above the prevailing LTE antennas. Nonetheless, shortage of area at rooftop places is making the enlargement with 5G unattainable in some locations, the telco stated.

The brand new 5G compact antennas developed by Ericsson are put in instantly behind the prevailing LTE expertise—with out the area necessities on the roof being massively modified. The 5G radio sign from the extra, energetic antenna is allowed by, Vodafone defined.

“For extra 5G in interior cities, we due to this fact want much less area on the mast and on the roofs. Improvements like these can additional speed up the 5G enlargement in Germany and assist us to deal with the annual improve in information site visitors of greater than 30%,” Hoelzer stated.

Daniel Leimbach, head of Ericsson Western Europe, stated: “Using a compact active-passive antenna will enhance the cell broadband expertise in cities sooner or later. Ericsson’s ‘Interleaved AIR 3218’ will massively simplify web site upgrades and speed up 5G deployment in areas that have been beforehand restricted by constructing rules, planning regulation or for static causes.”

Vodafone Germany not too long ago stated it has accomplished over 1,400 development tasks within the LTE and 5G networks throughout the second quarter of the 12 months.

Vodafone stated it has put greater than 500 new development websites into operation and put in extra antennas for LTE, 5G and 5G Standalone (5G SA) at nearly 900 different places to develop broadband capacities.

The telco famous that round half of the inhabitants in Germany is already linked to Vodafone’s 5G SA community by way of 5,500 5G SA places, of which greater than 4,000 stations are actually geared up with antennas within the 3.5 GHz frequency vary.

Vodafone Germany had launched its 5G SA community in 2022 in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Oppo. For the 5G enlargement, Vodafone is presently counting on frequencies within the 3.6 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 700 MHz bands in giant city areas, residential areas and suburbs and rural areas throughout Germany.

Vodafone initially launched its 5G community in Germany in 2019, utilizing 3.5 GHz frequencies that it acquired from Telefónica in 2018.