Telekom Slovenije has began considerably upgrading its community to reinforce 5G protection and capability. In 2023, the corporate invested over EUR 22 million in its cellular community, with plans to greater than double this quantity in 2024. In keeping with Telekom Slovenije, this funding is in response to a 33 p.c annual enhance in knowledge utilization by its cellular customers.
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Increasing 5G Protection Throughout Slovenia
The telco reported that almost one-third of its clients are presently linked to its 5G community, a quantity that continues to rise as extra gadgets help the know-how. As Slovenia’s largest cellular operator, Telekom Slovenije upgraded over 300 base stations with 5G know-how in 2021, overlaying 33 p.c of the inhabitants. With upgrades deliberate for 2023 and 2024, the corporate plans to equip almost 1,000 of its greater than 1,500 base stations with 5G, concentrating on 99 p.c inhabitants protection subsequent yr.
Give attention to Networks
The modernisation efforts embody upgrades to the core, transport, and radio entry networks, specializing in increasing 5G protection to smaller cities, vacationer areas, and motorways. Over the previous 18 months, the capability of Telekom Slovenije’s cellular community has elevated by over 30 p.c, whereas the 5G community capability has tripled throughout the identical interval, the corporate stated.
“We constantly increase, improve, and replace our community with the most recent applied sciences, optimising frequency spectrum utilization and power consumption. Lately, we’ve got restructured and upgraded the core community, enhanced and optimized the entry community, and upgraded the back-end gear, together with additional enhancing connections to base stations. Our community is totally ready throughout all ranges for the continued rollout of probably the most superior 5G applied sciences. This allows us to supply customers with much more safe, dependable, and quicker cellular web with low latency,” stated Telekom Slovenije.
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“The modernisation and enlargement of the 5G community have been underway intensively since final yr, following the completion of the primary part. We are actually within the second part, the biggest in Telekom Slovenije’s historical past, the place we’re intensively upgrading the core, transport, and radio entry networks. 5G is now accessible even in cities with fewer than 1,000 residents, in vacationer areas, and alongside the motorway community. This enlargement of 5G protection is the results of the efforts of over 200 specialists who make sure the superior high quality of our community every single day. Within the last part, we’ll additional improve protection with a give attention to sign high quality, and knowledge switch speeds shall be even increased. We will even fully renovate the core community,” Telekom Slovenije added.
Power Effectivity Amidst Rising Knowledge Visitors
Telekom Slovenije says additionally it is dedicated to power effectivity, having managed a 40-fold enhance in knowledge visitors over the previous decade with solely a ten p.c rise in electrical energy consumption. At present, the corporate’s 4G community covers 98 p.c of the inhabitants, and 5G protection reaches 65 p.c. Customers also can entry mounted companies (web, tv, and stuck telephony) by way of 4G and 5G applied sciences.
