O2 Germany has announced that the company is now covering 99 percent of the population with its GSM network. By the end of the year, the entire UMTS network will be HSDPA capable. The number of EDGE sites has tripled in the last two months and the HSUPA upgrading will start this year already.


O2 has reached the key milestone of operating an independent network as the company now achieves an almost 100 percent coverage of the population. Until the full expansion of its own mobile network by the end of 2009, O2 customers will also be able to use the T-Mobile network in areas which are not covered by O2. Moreover, O2 is also rapidly moving forward the optimization of the mobile supply in buildings, and the company continues to catch up with the two big market players.

Furthermore, O2 will start HSUPA upgrading for a more rapid uploading of data in the next couple of weeks.
Based on EDGE the mobile use of data will also become more and more rapidly in the classical GSM network. The number of sites has more than tripled to 2,600 in the last two months.

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