From Hildburg Bruns
The brighter, the more sluggish the Berliners surf. This is shown on the map on this page. Only 370,000 households and businesses have a fiber optic connection and thus really fast internet.
Berlin’s Economics Senator Franziska Giffey (45, SPD) is now speeding up. Because Berlin should become the number 1 innovation location in Europe. By 2028 there should be no more light blue spots. From 17.2 percent to 100 percent supply in five years! So far, this goal was only set for 2030. “Ambitious”, say the nine companies operating in Berlin, but “doable”.
After all, Berlin is the first federal state to have fully digitized applications, processing and approval. And work is being done to ensure that minor structural measures only have to be reported.
The planning:
► 2023: 400,000 new connections
► 2024: 600,000 new connections
This means that the capital will be above the national average in the coming year. Shows when and where fiber optics are laid the new gigabit monitor.
There you can also see what it will look like at the end of the year: In Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, half of the households will have fiber optic connections (52.4 percent), in Treptow-Köpenick only 5.7 percent. The further expansion years are also shown.
Where the companies (Telekom, Vodafone, DNS: Net, Colt, Vattenfall, etc.) push the fiber optic cables into the ducts under the sidewalks and when, they decide themselves based on costs – distances play a role, but also customer interests. With the last spots on the Berlin map, Berlin will probably have to lure with grants.
On Wednesday on the roof of the Berlin Technology Foundation in Schöneberg: Economics Senator Franziska Giffey (45, SPD) and representatives of fiber optic companies Photo: Ralf Gunther
The need is huge. “The amount of data going through our networks will increase thirty-fold by 2030,” says Giffey. And a fiber optic cable manages at least 1000 times more than a conventional copper cable, which also weighs 64 kilos per meter.
A glass fiber for an apartment, on the other hand, is thinner than a hair and is blown into the pipes with air pressure, no heavy machines are needed. And it uses only 20 percent of the power of a copper cable.
After all, by 2025 at least all 2.2 million households will have gigabit connections. Here Berlin is currently at 91.7 percent.