Telefónica Deutschland driving LTE expansion: LTE network already expanded by well over 3,000 LTE stations in 2018

In the first half of 2018, Telefónica Deutschland drove the LTE expansion not only in the cities but also across the countryside. In sparsely populated areas, where LTE had not yet been expanded, around 50,000 people per week were connected to LTE via the O₂ network in the first half of 2018. The new supply covers an area about eleven times as large as Berlin. In total, the company has connected additional communities in all 16 German states to the modern LTE network, for example between Schleswig and Flensburg (among others in Rendsburg, Hollingstedt, Schuby, Jübek), in the Eifel (among others at Nürburgring, in Simmerath, Schleiden, Kamberg, Rescheid, Schnorrenberg, Herresbach, Döttingen), in the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria (among others in Hohenfels, Eichendorf, Arnstorf, Ortenburg, Grafenau, Riedenburg), in Havelland and the Pritzwalk region (Kümmernitztal, Gerdshagen, Könkendorf, Neu Krüssow), in East Frisia (Westerholt, Schweindorf, Tannenhausen) and in the Southern Black Forest (Simonswald, Schluchsee. In addition, Telefónica Deutschland has driven the expansion of LTE along important transport infrastructures such as motorways and railway lines. For example, the LTE supply along the ICE lines Hamburg - Flensburg, Nuremberg - Passau or Berlin - Braunschweig was improved further. In general, customers can use download speeds in the O₂ LTE network with up to 225 Mbps and upload speeds with meanwhile up to 75 Mbps (instead of 50 Mbps so far). Due to the progress of the LTE expansion, the average download rates of all customers with LTE Max tariffs increased significantly within the last months from 19 Mbps to 27 Mbps.