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Dead spots are to be plugged: 22 to 25 new masts in the Dachau district will be necessary for this

2022-05-12T16:49:41.734Z


Dead spots are to be plugged: 22 to 25 new masts in the Dachau district will be necessary for this Created: 05/12/2022, 18:40 By: Stefanie Zipfer You can only make really good calls in Dachau and Karlsfeld © Graphic: MM If you are traveling by car or S-Bahn in the Dachau hinterland and get a call, it can get exhausting at times. The connection keeps dropping. Almost 30 years after the start, t


Dead spots are to be plugged: 22 to 25 new masts in the Dachau district will be necessary for this

Created: 05/12/2022, 18:40

By: Stefanie Zipfer

You can only make really good calls in Dachau and Karlsfeld © Graphic: MM

If you are traveling by car or S-Bahn in the Dachau hinterland and get a call, it can get exhausting at times.

The connection keeps dropping.

Almost 30 years after the start, there should finally be good mobile communications in the district.

This will require 22 to 25 new masts.

In the long term, however, this will probably not be enough.

Even Lesotho has 5G

Dachau – You know it from vacations: It doesn't matter whether you're in Mallorca, Meran or Miami, the mobile phone works great.

But as soon as you're back home and want to inform your family about your return from the car, dead zones interrupt the flow of the story.

It is actually hard to believe, but at least 30 years have passed since the start of mobile communications in Germany and there are still gaps in the basic service.

While countries like Lesotho in Africa are already gearing up for the expansion of the latest generation of mobile communications, the 5G standard, people in this country are still working on nationwide 2G coverage.

Closing the gap is massively funded

After all: This gap closure is now actually massively promoted by the state government.

For the district of Dachau, the district office recently commissioned a study from the Regensburg office IK-T, which - as reported - determined cell phone reception using live measurements.

The state government's cell phone data, as explained by qualified engineer Harald Schönpflug from IK-T during his presentation of the results in the district office, would only be based on extrapolations.

In addition to the gaps in the basic service, the experts from Regensburg also examined the network coverage with the more modern 4G/LTE standard and determined how and where the 5G network in the Dachau district – which will be indispensable for all areas of life in a few years’ time – could be planned.

The services of the individual network operators were also compared.

In summary: There are dead zones, especially in the Dachau hinterland.

In some places you only have network, if at all, with a Telekom or Vodafone mobile phone contract.

The district made the study available to the municipalities.

Accordingly, only Karlsfeld and Dachau have a very good basic supply of mobile communications.

However, there is a need for action in Altomünster, Pfaffenhofen, Indersdorf, Erdweg, Bergkirchen, Schwabhausen, Haimhausen, Röhrmoos, Petershausen and Weichs.

Telekom is building a mast in Pfaffenhofen

At the presentation of the study, Helmut Zech, the mayor of Pfaffenhofen, reported on how his community is now dealing with the results.

IK-T's calculations revealed four underserved areas.

The community then commissioned a so-called market investigation process from the Bavarian mobile communications center in Regensburg.

In principle, these procedures can end in three different ways: the mobile network operators decide to expand the site themselves;

the municipalities take the issue into their own hands and set up a mast funded by the Free State;

or – this is the worst of all possibilities – neither the network operator nor the municipality want to provide a mobile service at the point in question.

In the case of Pfaffenhofen, Telekom decided to plug the dead spots itself.

Mayor Zech emphasizes that if none of the providers had reacted, his municipality would have set up a subsidized mast itself if necessary.

According to Zech, this solution “has the charm that you can better weigh up the location.

You can respond much better to the wishes of the citizens.” Ultimately, according to Zech, one must “take into account the fears of the citizens”.

According to Schönpflug, a total of 22 to 25 new mobile phone masts would be needed across the district in order to plug all dead spots in the minimum 2G standard.

The municipalities can apply for a maximum of 500,000 euros in the current support program of the Free State per supported mast.

The deadline, Schönpflug also admitted, is tough: the town halls must have sent their applications to Munich by June 30th.

However, the 2G dead spots are just the beginning, as District Administrator Stefan Löwl emphasized.

Sure, dead spots are "annoying," Löwl admitted.

But in the future, when 5G technology will replace the current 4G/LTE standard, "we will need significantly more locations".

Reason: Huge amounts of data can be transported with 5G, the capacity of the network is enormous - but the range of the masts is less.

Theoretically, according to Schönpfeil, “we then need a mast every 600 meters.”

In order to make this feasible, especially in rural areas, "people have to rethink," emphasizes Mayor Zech.

If you want a good network, you also have to accept a mast.

Basically, according to Zech, "it's like the wind turbines".

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Dachau newsletter.

Mobile communications yes, radio mast no

Harald Schönpflug has experienced the phenomenon more than once: A village has wild cell phone reception, mobile Internet is practically non-existent - and yet there is resistance to a new cell phone mast.

Why?

District administrator Stefan Löwl and communications engineer Harald Schönpflug believe that this unwillingness can be less due to scientific knowledge.

It has been proven that it is much more dangerous to life and limb if there is no cell phone network in a place.

In addition, emphasizes Schönpflug, the mobile phone and the mast are a two-way connection: it is not only the mast that transmits, but also the end device.

And the further away the mast is, the more the mobile phone transmits.

In principle, according to Schönpflug, "it is therefore healthier if the mobile phone is closer to the radio mast".

Löwl emphasizes that alleged radio mast-related complaints “do not want to belittle”.

But a lot of things are “rather felt.

We've even had the case that someone complained that they couldn't sleep because of the mast.

But it wasn't even connected to the power grid at the time.” zip

Source: merkur

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