Reducing our impact on the environment

Managing traffic - electricity ratio – Almost 5 times improvement of the network’s energy efficiency on the last 5 years. At first glance, there seems to be no significant connection between watching TV series on streaming platforms and generating carbon emissions. The path by which video content reaches us, however, requires a significant amount of electricity - from the storage of base stations, the transfer of data between them and data centers, the transmission of signals to the device at home, etc. And the energy used has its own impact on the environment.

With 5G Balkans, we are building the future! On Monday, Boyan Lazarov and Ilian Tumbev presented the project to fourth-year Telecommunications students at Technical University of Sofia. The colleagues shared the project's goals and TU Sofia's key role as part of the Consortium. Prof. Iliya Iliev from TU outlined the measurements, analyses, and reports conducted by the university for the optical cable and base station coverage.

In 2024 CETIN Bulgaria started the 5G Balkans project to improve the optic connectivity along the cross-border transport corridor Sofia – Serbia (part of the Orient/East-Med TEN-T corridor) by enabling the development of 5G services required for CAM (Connected & Automated Mobility).