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What’s happening with fibre across Germany?

The German Federal Government coalition considers nationwide expansion of gigabit networks by 2025 as a priority goal and has developed a 5G Strategy for Germany. The goal is to expand fibre infrastructure in each region and each community, preferably directly to the house.
 

 

According to Onlinekosten.de, the state of Baden-Wurttemberg plans to invest € 600m in fibre expansion in 2020/21. In total. the local government will invest more than €1 bn in high-speed internet connections between 2016 and 2021. Today, some 90% of households have a 50 Mb/s or higher connection. 75% of the households across the state have access to 200 Mb/s or higher. 

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing Telefónica Deutschland GmbH & Co. OHG, Germany’s second-largest mobile telephony company, a € 450m loan for the further development and upgrading of mobile network infrastructure. This investment is being made in order to improve the quality of the network as well as geographical coverage. 

Regulator approves Deutsche Telekom, Ewe JV fibre expansion

The Bundeskartellamt – Germany’s cartel authority - has approved the Deutsche Telekom and EWE AG’s Joint Venture plans to expand fibre networks to end-customers in the country’s northwest. The JV, named  Glasfaser NordWest. will add 300,000 end user fibre connections over the next four years. The JV aims to eventually connect as many as 1.5 million households and companies in parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen with FTTB or FTTH, requiring a €2 bn investment over the next ten years.
 
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Gigabit Region Stuttgart GmbH and Deutsche Telekom will be cooperating on expansion of high-speed internet, plugging gaps in the mobile communications network and launching a regional 5G pilot. 

The expansion area currently covers 174 municipalities in the City of Stuttgart and its neighbouring districts Böblingen, Esslingen, Göppingen, Ludwigsburg, and Rems-Murr. This area is home to 2.8 million people and 140,000 businesses.

DT, Telefonica and Vodafone expand coverage

Germany’s three largest providers - Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Vodafone, will be building 6,000 new mobile sites to improve broadband coverage. The companies will share the use of the network, improving  mobile broadband coverage for rural customers, as well as along road, rail and inland waterway routes - a condition of the German federal regulators’ 5G spectrum auction.