Radio holes
Mobile operators share sites
Mobile providers want to use to various locations, broadcasting equipment and antennas together. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Central picture/dpa
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Telefónica (O2), Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone to say the “Grey spots” in the fight.
So cell phone users in the country, no radio holes, want to make Germany’s mobile operators for the network coverage in some places is a common thing.
As the company reported, under Telefónica (O2), signed with Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, respectively, a Declaration of intent for the closure of the so-called “Grey spots” in the course of this year. This is areas to receive only one of the three German mobile networks and the customer with a cell phone stuck in contract for the other two networks so in the radio hole.
The two co-operation agreements include several hundred locations where the broadcasting equipment and the antennas to be shared, and the customers of the different providers connect to the net. The sites are located in sparsely populated areas of Germany – there is an economic operation of the antennas is difficult. Through the joint use of the sites, the costs for the network operator are lower than going it alone.
Telefónica Germany CEO Markus Haas stated that for rapid progress in the mobile communications supply, “a joint effort of all Stakeholders is required”. “The co-operative for the shared Use of sites is an important step in this direction and a good Signal to Germany’s mobile customers.” The heads of Telecom, Srini Gopalan, and Vodafone, Hannes Ametsreiter, saw it in a similar way.
