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Mobile phone card from the Federal Network Agency (excerpt)
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The mobile network coverage in all villages, cities and uninhabited areas of Germany can now be seen for the first time on an online map from the Federal Network Agency.
The website www.breitband-monitor.de, which was activated on Thursday, shows the availability of all three network operators, i.e. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica (O2).
There has never been a card like this before.
Accessibility is recognizable down to the level of individual streets and addresses - according to the different mobile radio standards 2G, 3G and 4G.
5G will also be added in the future.
The networks of the fifth generation of mobile communications are only just being set up, but new smartphones are increasingly dominating the standard.
Apple recently presented the 5G-capable iPhone 12, but there are already corresponding devices in the mid-range.
Only 0.3 percent of the country's area is not covered at all
The data for the comprehensive map of the Federal Network Agency come from the three network operators, the regulatory authority checks their accuracy on a random basis.
"We are monitoring the development of mobile phone coverage and will make the data available to the public on a regular basis in the future," said Jochen Homann, President of the Federal Network Agency.
The overview is to be updated quarterly, the next time in January 2021.
According to the map, 96.5 percent of the area in Germany is supplied with 4G (LTE) by at least one network operator.
If you add the slower 3G, you would get 97.3 percent of the country's area.
Including 2G (Edge), the dead spots in which not a single network operator is active would shrink to just 0.3 percent of the country's area.
For consumers, however, these are theoretical values because their mobile phones only connect to one of the three networks - the areas without a connection for individual smartphones are therefore larger.
The map shows exactly where the customers of which mobile phone providers are threatened with a dead spot or a snail's pace of the Internet.
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