Telefónica Germany

On its way to the mobile communications network of the future, Telefónica Deutschland is cooperating with NGN FIBER NETWORK KG (NGN) from Lower Franconia in order to have parts of its mobile communications locations connected to high-speed fibre-optic lines. The goal of the network operator is to further improve the performance of its own LTE network, while laying the foundation for a nationwide 5G network that offers significantly better data rates, higher capacities and extremely low latency times.

The Telefónica Group has published a new edition of its Digital Manifesto, in which the telecommunications company makes a global commitment to a “new digital deal” so that digitalisation benefits everybody in times of rapid technological, political and social change. In a guest article, Markus Haas, CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, explains why many existing laws and regulations no longer meet the challenges of the digital age, what he hopes will emerge from more intensive collaboration between business, politics and society, and how Telefónica is putting the Digital Manifesto into action in Germany.

The network integration is a major project unparalleled in Europe and is currently in full swing across Germany, making great progress in all regions.

CEO Álvarez-Pallete stands by the German mobile communications subsidiary.

The supervisory board of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG today elected Laura Abasolo García de Baquedano as its new chairperson. The 45-year-old Spaniard succeeds Eva Castillo Sanz, who resigned from the position on 25 April in order to pursue new professional challenges.

The chairperson of the supervisory board, Eva Castillo Sanz, has informed the company´s management board and the supervisory board that she will resign from her position as chairperson of the supervisory board with immediate effect.

OIBDA before exceptional effects²⁾ up 5.4% adjusted for regulatory effects³⁾ | Revenues grow by 0.4% adjusted for regulatory effects⁴⁾ | Mobile service revenues continue positive trend | 157,000 mobile subscriptions added in the quarter | Mobile data use continues to grow sharply: +56% among O₂ contract customers with LTE

Nokia and Telefónica Germany are taking Nokia’s “factory in a box” (FiaB) concept – a modular, portable production line in standard cargo containers – one step closer to real-world deployment.

The future government has included it in the coalition agreement and we firmly believe it as well: Germany needs a significant impulse for broadband expansion. We also need an overall strategy for mobile communications in order to be leaders in the new 5G technology and ensure the sustainability of Germany as an economic centre. An expensive frequency auction with additional economically disproportionate expenses contradicts this goal. In order for us to close the gaps in Germany’s mobile communications networks and become a leading 5G market, we need mostly one thing: a "mobile communications pact for Germany." I have suggested this today to the Federal Network Agency advisory board responsible for the allocation of mobile communication frequencies.

Telefónica Deutschland published its Annual Report 2017 today (link geschaeftsbericht.telefonica.de). The online magazine accompanying the Annual Report is available under the meta theme “Mobile Freedom”. Alongside insights into the current strategy of Telefónica Deutschland and highlights from the financial year 2017, the website chapters Customers, Employees and Society show the differing facets of mobile freedom.

On February 27th 2018, representatives of Telefónica Deutschland and Huawei underlined their successful cooperation within the framework of the Munich TechCity project during a meeting at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The partners signed a new agreement at the Huawei stand in Hall 1 of the Fira Gran Via exhibition center. This extends the cooperation within the framework of the TechCity project in the technology standard 4.5G by three years and explicitly includes 5G.

Telefónica Deutschland has started the company’s sweeping digital transformation into a mobile customer and digital champion by 2022. The programme, dubbed Digital4Growth, puts the needs of customers and customer experience in the Digital Age consistently at the centre of focus.

OIBDA before exceptional effects 1) up 2.6 percent despite impact of regulation | Mobile service revenue returns to growth path | 737,000 contract customers added in the past year | Mobile data usage up 55 percent in 2017 | Outlook for 2018: Revenue before regulatory effects broadly stable | OIBDA before exceptional effects and regulatory effects flat to slightly positive

Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland are planning to accelerate the connection of their mobile phone sites to fast fibre-optic cables. The two companies have agreed on a pilot project to connect parts of their mobile locations to each other’s high-speed backhaul broadband lines. As a result of the cooperation, even more customers will benefit directly from high-speed data coverage via LTE (4G).

Telefónica Deutschland will be the first network operator in Germany to provide voice calls via LTE and WiFi for all customers of its home brands and partner brands. This includes both postpaid and prepaid customers. When making calls with these technologies, so-called “Voice over LTE (VoLTE)” and “Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi),” customers benefit from improved voice quality and expanded network coverage via LTE and WiFi at no additional cost. Telefónica Deutschland will gradually implement the services across the individual brands and customer groups, and plans to have completed the process by the end of March 2018.

Lab testing in Munich and field trials currently planned in Berlin will address the demands for greater capacity and performance on the path to 5G | Focus on 4.5G, 4.9G and 5G, including Massive MIMO, Edge Cloud and active antenna technology

Mobility data, data analysis, big data – these terms are all rather abstract. With “So bewegt sich Deutschland” (How Germany moves), Telefónica NEXT has created an interactive map that takes the data and uses it to visualise nationwide traffic flows. The aim is to bring to life the findings for mobility and transport planning in Germany that cities, transport companies and other interest parties can obtain from anonymised mobile network data. Among other things, it includes regional insights on topics such as commuter behaviour and morning departure times for Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.

Telefónica Germany successfully carried out LTE FDD Massive MIMO field trial in Munich on July 20th 2017. The trial is the latest milestone in the operator’s collaboration with Huawei –referred to as Munich TechCity- that accelerates the application of new mobile technologies in its live network.

The measurements taken by users in the current network test of the consumer tech magazine COMPUTER BILD (issue 26 of December 9, 2017) confirm that the network performance of Telefónica Deutschland is stable despite the ongoing network integration.

A year ago, Telefónica Deutschland founded its subsidiary for data-based business models: Telefónica NEXT. Plenty has happened since then: The corporate start-up has now conducted data analyses for transport planning in five German cities, it is strengthening bricks-and- mortar retail and thus German city centres with its analytical expertise, and it has made the alpha version of its “Geeny” IoT platform for end-user applications available to developers and companies. We take a look back.