Swisscom also tests 5G in the mountain village

After Sunrise, Swisscom also shows a 5G installation – in a remote location.

By the end of this year, Swisscom will selectively showcase the new generation of 5G mobile communications in Switzerland. Currently, Telco is testing various applications in the Bernese mountain community of Guttannen to bring 5G to more remote locations. The test will continue until the end of the year, as Swisscom announces today.

In the municipality of Guttannen, which has only 300 inhabitants but is one of the largest municipalities in the canton of Bern with 200 square kilometers, there will still be buildings, despite their development in fiber, which are not not due to their remoteness. benefit from it and must therefore be exploited differently. Here, 5G options come into play with fixed wireless access (FWA) and beam training, writes Swisscom.

Fixed wireless access connects individual buildings and homes to high-speed wireless Internet instead of cable, VDSL or fiber optics. FWA can be seen as an addition to the fixed network infrastructure

and increase the availability of the ultra wide band. In the future, beamforming will allow radio beams to track a user and thus ensure a more efficient data transmission. Swisscom has also tested this 5G function in Guttannen. The results of the measurements would confirm theoretically calculated efficiency increases, but the strict limits of NISV would prevent the effective use of beamforming, writes Swisscom.

Sunrise also highlighted the Radiation Protection Ordinance when presenting a 5G facility at the end of June. As long as the NISV technical regulations are not relaxed, Sunrise will not build a national 5G network, said Olaf Swantee, director of Sunrise, in front of the media.

Swisscom has installed an additional cellular antenna in Guttannen. It sends in the frequency range of 3.5 Ghz, the same thing that 5G will do. Three test customers have been equipped with the appropriate equipment and are using the 5G services of tomorrow. The auction of new mobile frequencies, including the 3.5 to 3.8 GHz range, will take place next January. (SDA / kjo)