On Wednesday, O2 began commercially offering 5G mobile network services in a small part of Prague and Kolín. During the summer, it will be available to 15 percent of the capital’s population. Compared to the existing LTE technology, it will enable up to ten times the speed of the Internet connection.
The O2 5G network covers the wider center of Prague and Kolín. Customers in the Old and New Towns, Vinohrady, Nusle, Dejvice and Bubeneč, for example, will be able to join the metropolis. So far, only a few mobile phone models support the technology in the O2 network.
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By the end of the summer, O2 wants to cover part of the wider center of Prague and Kolín with the 5G network Photo: O2
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The operator launched the technology at a frequency of 3.7 GHz, which it had previously used. 5G now allows a connection speed of 600/100 Mbit / s. “If the conditions of the frequency auction allow it, we are ready to increase the available speeds and the percentage of coverage,” said Jan Hruška, the company’s technology director. The auction should start in the fall.
O2 is building the network together with Cetin. Last year in Cologne, 5G launched with Ericsson, and now continues testing with Huawei and Nokia.
O2 is the first domestic operator to start offering 5G commercially, with competitors continuing test operations in selected locations. Vodafone is to gradually test 5G in Karlovy Vary, where commercial operation is also ready, as well as in Ústí nad Labem and Jeseník. T-Mobile, which this year announced a 5G test network on the campus of the University of Mining in Ostrava, is also preparing a commercial launch.
The introduction of 5G is accompanied by alarm messages
The city of Pilsen, which is one of five pilot cities for 5G testing within the project of the Ministry of Industry, wants to test, among other things, drone flights beyond the line of sight, streaming for crisis management and edge computing. He wants to find out how these modern machines can be best integrated into an integrated rescue system with the help of 5G networks and thus increase the safety of the population.
In Jeseník, some citizens are resisting the start of 5G testing. According to them, the 5G signal is harmful to health and they have even been linked to coronavirus disease. According to experts, nothing like this has been confirmed, and they also point out that television transmitters transmitting a signal with a higher power have operated on the same frequencies as 5G, which no one minded.
Resistance to 5G is often part of the so-called hoaxes, ie false alarms most often spread over the Internet.
2 minutes – 5G network Video: Martin Krepindl, Jakub Zuzánek
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