While 5G is live in 5 German cities only 4 cities covered by 4G
This past September, Deutsche Telekom said its 5G service was live in four German cities. Yesterday, it was reported that only five cities in Germany are fully covered with 4G-LTE. That’s according to a crowdsourcing test carried out by Umlaut (formerly P3) and published by the newspaper Die Welt.
German network operators Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica provide complete 4G coverage in Dortmund , Offenbach am Main, Erlangen, Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen get. In those cities, all households and the entire area have full 4G access.
According to the report, the city states of Hamburg , Bremen and Berlin are at the top of the federal states . Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg are at the bottom of the list. Across Germany and across all three network operators, the Umlaut company rated the mobile network coverage in Germany with 914.5 out of a possible 1,000 points. 1000 points correspond to a full supply.
“The German networks are better than their reputation,” said umlaut telecommunications expert Hakan Ekmen.
In terms of federal states, the city-states of Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin rank at the top of the list for 4G coverage, according to Umlaut, while Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg are at the bottom of the ranking.
The data collected included the quality of the signal of the network operators and the transmission speeds, among others. The study had access to nearly two billion samples from April to September. The data on network quality are measured automatically in the background of the smartphones in more than 900 different apps. The users do not have to carry out speed tests themselves.
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Germany has worse 4G-LTE mobile network coverage than many of its European neighbors, according to a 2018 study by the Aachen-based consulting firm P3 that was seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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https://www.telecompaper.com/news/only-five-german-cities-are-fully-covered-with-4g-study–1321161 (on-line subscription required)
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