It is the largest financial project in the history of the Saxon town of Hainichen: The comprehensive fiber optic expansion will be the basis for its economic and regional development far into the future. Over 530 business locations, more than 3,800 households, the town hall, four rescue control centers, four educational institutions and a school are to be supplied with an ultra-modern and extremely fast fiber optic network. To make this possible, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure is supporting the expansion with around 8.4 million from federal broadband funding. This is in addition to the state funding from the Free State of Saxony and the municipal contribution.
The expansion began today: In the presence of Marco Wanderwitz, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Europe, Veronika Bellmann, Member of the German Bundestag, Iris Firmenich, Member of the State Parliament, and Tim Brauckmüller, Head of the project sponsor aconium GmbH, the city celebrated the start of construction on this important expansion project with a ground-breaking ceremony.
As an industrial and commercial location with an optimal communications infrastructure, Hainichen strengthens the existing economy and offers the prerequisites for new companies and thus new jobs to settle here. The municipal fiber optic expansion thus contributes to increasing the regional attractiveness of the town.
But the citizens of Hainichen in particular also benefit from a communications infrastructure that is geared towards the future: fiber optics right into the building guarantees a domestic connection to the high-speed network. In addition, the new fiber optic network also enables freely accessible Wi-Fi hotspots from the Freifunk Mittelsachsen citizens’ initiative, mobility services such as electronic passenger information at the train station and, in the long term, the digital transformation of the town and its surroundings.
For Mayor Dieter Greysinger, the ground-breaking ceremony marks the start of the broadband expansion in the city: “I would like to thank all those involved that the construction work can now begin. I hope that the work will proceed without complications and I am very much looking forward to when we can put the first connection into operation in the foreseeable future.”