08 February 2024

O2 Slovakia has announced significant progress in expanding the coverage of its 5G network to 70.1% of the country’s population by the end of December 2023, up from 37% a year earlier.

Over the year 2023, O2 Slovakia launched 5G services in 819 new sites, taking the network to a total of 1,009 sites. The operator is significantly expanding the coverage of the 5G network and modernising the entire network infrastructure, leading to improved connection quality for customers.

The network modernisation, coupled with the announced shutdown of the 3G network, the utilisation of freed frequencies, and the planned infrastructure sharing with a partner operator, is expected to help O2 build the most modern mobile network, according to the official release.

“The year 2023 at O2 was undoubtedly also about building the most modern 5G network. During the year, we managed to cover more than 800 new locations and increase coverage from 37% to more than 70% of the population in Slovakia. Even in 2024, we will focus on improving the quality of our network infrastructure. Along with the announced switch-off of the outdated 3G technology, we are modernising our fastest network, and at the same time, we will gradually bring a high-speed connection signal to areas where it has been missing so far,” said O2 Slovakia in a statement.