Meanwhile, the German government offloads €2.5bn of DT shares (a stake of about 2.2%) to raise cash for the country’s neglected railway
Deutsche Telekom (DT) has installed a private 5G Standalone (5G SA) campus network for RTL Deutschland, just in time for the European Football Championship. The entire infrastructure, from the antennas and active system technology to the core network, comes from Ericsson and is installed locally on the site in Cologne-Deutz.
The 5G campus network is installed in two RTL studios and the so-called mall, plus RTL’s visitors’ car park in Cologne-Deutz has 5G. Altogether the network covers an area of more than 35,000 square meters for uninterrupted coverage indoors and outdoors. DT says the private network will ensure “a flawless live broadcast”, even if the mobile cells of the public network are busy.
DT and RTL have already successfully tested live broadcast via the public Telekom 5G SA network with network slicing for reporting on the move.
All data traffic remains in the local campus network. A total of six antennas were installed for the campus network at RTL Deutschland: two outdoors, one of which is used on a temporary basis, and four more indoors.
The upload capacity is about 500Mbps are for live productions – the delay rate must not exceed 25 milliseconds. The 5G SA network operates on frequencies reserved for RTL Deutschland in the 3.7 to 3.8 GHz range; up to 100MHz bandwidth is exclusively available to the broadcaster.
RTL Deutschland can adapt the private network and manage various functions on-demand. For example, specific applications’ data traffic can be prioritised as required. The local core network has a redundant architecture ensuring the network continues reliably even in the event of an interruption to the cloud-based management portal.
Selling DT to fund rail
Germany’s government has sold a €2.5 billion stake in DT. The country’s media reports this the latest such move by the government to raise cash from selling off corporate holdings.
The German state-owned bank KfW offered institutional investors 110 million shares on Monday. The combined holding of KfW and the government is now 27.8%. They remain DT’s largest shareholders.
DT responded saying it will increase its share buyback programme by €600 million. The programme was launched in November as a means of paying back shareholders after DT raised funds to increase its stake in its US subsidiary, T-Mobile.
Need to raise funds
The Finance Ministry said the net proceeds will be used to increase the government’s equity of state rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, and expand the country’s rail infrastructure. Deutsche Bahn itself Deutsche Bahn is looking for bids for its DB Schenker logistics unit, which could bring in more than €15 billion.
“Due to the receptive stock market environment, the placement was successfully completed,” the Ministry said in a statement. top court last year.
According to The Business Times, “Berlin is trying to come up with savings measures without compromising efforts to lift Europe’s biggest economy out of a slump or modernise and expand the armed forces after years of neglect.”