German operator Deutsche Telekom has carried out a video call at its first 5G Standalone site, the company said in a statement.
The company installed a 5G Standalone site in Garching to make the call to Bonn. The call latency was 13 milliseconds.
The primary 5G technology currently deployed in Germany is based on the 5G Non-Standalone (5G NSA) network architecture, which means that current’s 5G offerings are still technically dependent on a simultaneously available 4G network (LTE). With 5G Standalone, the infrastructure in the core network will also be fully upgraded to a new, cloud-based 5G architecture, the telco said.
