Business Chief Europe Magazine March 2016 | Page 32
For Germany ’ s largest mobile operator , integrating the networks of O2 and E-Plus while instigating an accelerated LTE roll out was a unique technical challenge that fell to the company ’ s CTO Cayetano Carbajo and his team
TELEFÓNICA DEUTSCHLAND
For Germany ’ s largest mobile operator , integrating the networks of O2 and E-Plus while instigating an accelerated LTE roll out was a unique technical challenge that fell to the company ’ s CTO Cayetano Carbajo and his team
The new Telefónica Deutschland is the largest mobile communication provider in Germany , setting the pace for the telecommunication industry and its evolution in a time of digitalisation there . The aim is to become the leading digital telecommunications company in this key European market , the pursuit of this goal started at the beginning of 2016 with the process of integrating Telefónica and Eplus networks . These networks are using the three mobile standards ( GSM , UMTS and LTE ; this is 2G , 3G and 4G ) with nationwide coverage . The integration work started in 2015 , while the company continues to build out its