Following the handover of the final funding decision to District Administrator Manfred Schnur in Berlin on September 3, 2019 and today’s ground-breaking ceremony in Treis-Karden, construction work can now begin in the district of Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate. Once the construction work is complete, 89 municipalities will benefit from the subsidized broadband expansion.
“With today’s ground-breaking ceremony for the broadband expansion, we have reached a major and important milestone for the future viability of our district.
Thanks to the financial support from the federal and state governments, we are able to invest around 19 million euros in improving the broadband infrastructure and thus set the course for the digital requirements of tomorrow.
But we do not want to rest on our laurels. Broadband expansion and the constantly growing demand for higher bandwidths will become an ongoing task. The next step will therefore be to develop the industrial and commercial areas,” said Manfred Schnur in his opening speech.
The conditions have been created to enable students, entrepreneurs and citizens to participate in digital life.
The district of Cochem-Zell is also a pioneer and driver of digital change in the area of e-government, said aconium Managing Director Tim Brauckmüller in his welcoming address. “The prerequisite for a digitalized administration has been created with a high-performance infrastructure,” Brauckmüller continued.
The Cochem-Zell district’s expansion project is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure’s(BMVI) federal broadband funding program to the tune of over eleven million euros. The district and its towns and municipalities are investing just under two million euros of their own funds, with around 5.7 million euros of additional funding coming from the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The funds will be used to complete a total of 200 kilometers of civil engineering work. Upon completion, more than 1,500 households and 48 companies as well as 39 institutional customers, including 32 schools, are expected to benefit from this.