Band specific coverage obligations

As part of the coverage obligations of the award of 700/1500/2100 MHz, the operators are obliged to provide band-specific coverage.

These require a certain number of base stations (which have to meet a number of criteria) to be set up per band. 

 Band specific coverage obligations
BandDate from
Base stations
700 MHz
2022-12-31
500
700 MHz
2023-12-311500
1500 MHz
2025-12-31300
1500 MHz
2030-12-31500
2100 MHz
2021-12-312000 (*)

(*) At least 75 base stations must be operated in each region ("Bundesland")