Better mobile phone supply in Donnersbergkreis: Funkmast goes into operation!

Better mobile phone supply in Donnersbergkreis: Funkmast goes into operation!

Donnersbergkreis, Deutschland - The mobile phone supply in the Donnersberg district has improved noticeably in recent years. This was reported by the Region. Despite this positive development, however, problem areas remain in the mobile phone supply that still needs to be remedied.

The Federal Network Agency supports the improvement of mobile phone supply through various measures. Your interactive Mobile phone-card indicates the status of mobile phone cover in Germany and offers users the opportunity to search for postcode, street or location. In addition, radio pollutants can be documented, which serves to check the information of the mobile operator.

technological development in mobile communications

Technologization in the mobile phone area is progressing quickly. In addition to the established standards 2G and 4G, the latest technology 5G are also available. This development is part of a larger trend that the current statistics on mobile phone use also show. According to a report on Statista , the total sales with end customer services, advance services and devices in 2023 was about 27.6 billion euros, which corresponds to an increase in sales of 0.4 % compared to previous year.

The number of SIM cards in Germany rose to around 185 million at the end of 2023-an increase of 16 million compared to the previous year. This includes mobile phone contracts as well as prepaid connections and M2M communication. The market share of the mobile phone connections are distributed as follows: Vodafone has around 78.5 million connections, followed by Deutsche Telekom with around 61.4 million and telephone with approx. 45.1 million connections.

5G expansion and data use

Another reference to the rapidly advanced expansion of mobile communications in Germany is the number of 5G-capable mobile phone antennas, which was around 49,600 in 2023-an increase compared to around 42,000 in 2022. In addition, there are approx. 88,000 4G basis stations in Germany, which together generate a data traffic of around 9.1 billion gigabytes. Each mobile phone connection has an average data volume of 7.2 gigabytes per month.

also the SMS use, which in Germany reached almost 60 billion in 2012, shows a significant decline in 2023 with about 5.3 billion SMS, which underlines the shift towards data-based communication forms.