Telekom is aiming for 10 million fiber optic connections by 2024: Report

Telekom has announced to increase over the next three years the number of fiber-optic connections in Germany by around 400 percent. This plan is also urgently needed – if one wants to even come close to meeting the goals of politics.

Because in the coalition agreement it was agreed that by 2025 all regions and locations should be connected to the fiber optic backbone. Politicians are thus making the providers responsible, although they still have many gray spots on the map when it comes to FTTH expansion.

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At the online general meeting of Telekom, the CEO Tim Höttges confirmed that the group under the motto “tackle for the future” also the topic fiber optics “Deutsche Telekom has always been a leader in mobile communications. We are the best provider in Europe.

We have the best network in twelve out of 13 markets,” said Höttges. In the fixed network, Telekom is now taking the next step: “Optical fiber into the apartments. By 2024, ten million households will get FTTH from us alone. Deutsche Telekom will not set up a new monopoly network. That is why we are working with several hundred partners.”

The expansion plan covers the whole of Germany

More and more Telekom customers should soon be able to book bandwidths of up to one gigabit per second thanks to the FTTH connection. Just a few days ago, Telekom enjoyed Berlin in relation to network expansion; an interim goal of 600,000 fiber optic connections is planned, which should be implemented in households, companies, and schools by 2025. The expansion in the capital is to be pushed ahead vigorously, but that is only a small part of the expansion plan that has now been confirmed for all of Germany.

According to the latest known data from the Federal Network Agency, 13.8 percent of all households in Germany have so far been equipped with the option of getting a network connection via fiber optics and a bandwidth of one gigabit per second. Germany is thus still well below the European average of 33.5 percent. The front runner Latvia can fall back on coverage of 90 percent.

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