ドイツの通信事業者は5G展開を誇っています

ドイツテレコムは、ドイツで5Gサービスを展開した最初のネットワーク事業者でしたが、その先導はすぐになくなる可能性があります。The race to blanket Germany with 5G is officially underway. Within the span of two weeks, market leader Deutsche Telekom Germany and now Vodafone Germany have activated 5G services in limited areas across the country. Vodafone Germany’s initial 5G service is now live in 20 German cities, following Deutsche Telekom’s initial 5G launch in six cities earlier this month. Vodafone Germany’s 5G service is live in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Dortmund, and Munich, among other municipalities. The operator plans in August to launch 5G services in other cities including Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Darmstadt, Leipzig, and Frankfurt. It’s looking to have 5G live in 25 cities, 25 municipalities, and 10 industrial centers by March 2020. The operator says its 5G network will reach 10 million users by the end of 2020, and expects that covered population to double a year later. Deutsche Telekom was the first network operator to deploy 5G service in Germany but that lead could vanish quickly. It launched 5G in those six initial markets on July 3, and intends to reach Germany’s 20 largest cities by the end of 2020. Vodafone Germany is also trying to beat its rival on price, offering 5G service for $5.61 less per month than Deutsche Telekom. “We are democratizing 5G,” Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter said in a prepared statement. “With us, 5G isn’t just a technology only for high earners.” The new 5G networks in Germany are using equipment from Huawei, which is struggling amid a United States-led campaign to ban the Chinese vendor from participating in 5G networks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel bristled over those efforts and effectively told U.S. politicians to butt out. A Vodafone Germany spokesperson confirmed to Reuters that the operator intends to continue using equipment from Huawei and Ericsson. The first 5G deployments in Germany also come just a month after the country’s regulatory agency closed a 5G spectrum auction that banked $7.4 billion from 420 megahertz of spectrum in the 2 GHz and 3.6 GHz bands. Executives for all three of Germany’s leading operators bemoaned the high cost of spectrum, but the total amount raised is also a far cry from the nearly $43 billion German operators pledged for 3G spectrum licenses in 2000. The latest auction also introduced a new player into the market. That company, 1&1 Drillisch, bid $1.2 billion for 70 megahertz of spectrum, which sets the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to become a viable fourth operator in Germany. However, the new spectrum won’t be formally allocated until 2021, when the 3.6 GHz band is made available and the 2 GHz band won’t be available until 2026.