Slovak operator 4ka introduced that it has began increasing its 5G Community with the launch of companies in new areas. On the finish of February, 4ka expanded its 4G community protection, which already covers over 95 p.c of Slovakia’s inhabitants, and now it has began increasing its 5G community, the corporate just lately introduced.
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4ka’s 5G Community Enlargement
4ka stated its 5G companies are actually accessible in 6 new areas, together with Bardejov, Malacky, Stupava, Piestany, Zlate Moravce, and Zvolen, utilizing the C-Band (3.4 GHz and three.7 GHz). The 5G Community, constructed on the three.7 GHz band, requires the next variety of transmitters to cowl the territory whereas offering larger speeds of over 600 Mbps.
Protection Method
4ka stated this yr it has modified its 5G Community protection technique. Previously, the corporate targeted on massive cities with excessive inhabitants density. Now it would give attention to small areas in which there’s a excessive focus of 4ka prospects and 5G units. With this, smaller cities and cities may have 5G protection, the operator stated.
“This yr, we managed to considerably enhance our cellular community when, on the finish of February, we efficiently accomplished the transition from 3G to 4G community, with which we’ll cowl greater than 97 p.c of the inhabitants within the first half of the yr. We now have now set about increasing the 5G community wherever it is sensible. Step by step, throughout the yr, the 5G community will probably be added in dozens of latest areas all through Slovakia,” says 4ka.
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Key Cities with 5G Community
With plans to cowl greater than 10 further areas by early summer time, 4ka says its 5G community is already operational in key cities equivalent to Bratislava, Trnava, Nitra, Levice, Cadca, Ziar nad Hronom, Sered, Stropkov, Topolcany, and in elements of Banska Bystrica.
