Vantage Towers to improve Telefonica’s 5G infrastructure in Spain

Telefonica at present provides 5G protection to over 80% of the Spanish inhabitants

German telecommunications infrastructure supplier Vantage Towers has signed an settlement with Spanish operator Telefonica to improve its 5G infrastructure within the nation, the previous mentioned in its earnings assertion.

Vantage Towers mentioned that the deal includes 5G gear upgrades at greater than 1,500 current websites over the subsequent three years.

“Vantage Towers will modify the infrastructure to host 5G gear the place Telefonica already makes use of earlier applied sciences,” the corporate mentioned.

Telefonica gives 5G companies throughout Spain by way of its Movistar model.

Vantage Towers at present has over 8,700 towers in Spain, the place it has current offers with native operators Vodafone Spain and MasMovil.

The corporate’s portfolio consists of towers, masts, rooftop websites, distributed antenna programs and small cells. Vantage Towers has operations in Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Eire, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

In February, Telefonica introduced the activation of 5G companies utilizing spectrum within the 700MHz band. The telco mentioned it expects to achieve 1,400 localities in Spain with this service by the tip of this 12 months. In an preliminary section, the brand new service shall be provided in 700 cities and cities throughout the nation with the objective of reaching 2,400 localities by the tip of 2023.

Telefónica at present provides 5G protection to over 80% of the Spanish inhabitants, through 5G provided by way of 3.5Gz spectrum. In the course of the first half of 2021, the deployment of 5G has centered on finishing protection within the cities deployed final 12 months and reaching cities with greater than 20,000 inhabitants.

All of the provincial capitals and autonomous cities, 100% of the cities with greater than 50,000 inhabitants and 98% of these with greater than 20,000 inhabitants, in addition to small cities in all of the autonomous communities have already got 5G, the Spanish telco mentioned.

In July 2021, Telefónica formally introduced its determination to award the contracts to deploy its 5G standalone radio networks throughout Spain to Nordic distributors Ericsson and Nokia.

The deployment of Nokia and Ericsson 5G SA networks, which is predicted to happen this 12 months, shall be carried out on the three.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands, Telefónica mentioned.

Telefónica’s 5G community at present combines the deployment of 5G NSA and DSS (Dynamic Spectrum Sharing).