Photo credit: aconium GmbH: from left to right: MP Max Straubinger, MP Martin Wagle, Tim Brauckmüller (front aconium Managing Director), Andreas Scheuer (front Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure), Mayor Matthäus Mandl (front), District Administrator Michael Fahmüller (back), Dr. Rainer Bauer (back, Bavarian Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs), Johannes Bisping (front, bisping&bisping), District President Rainer Haselbeck (back)
Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer gives the official go-ahead – 1,500 households get ultra-fast Internet connections
The market town of Gangkofen in the Lower Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn will be supplied with ultra-fast fiber optic connections (directly to the buildings). The expansion project was launched on July 10, 2020 in the presence of Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, Max Straubinger (Member of the Bundestag), Martin Wagle (Member of the Bavarian State Parliament) and aconium Managing Director Tim Brauckmüller.
According to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), the broadband expansion project in Gangkofen is Bavaria’s largest single financial project in the federal funding program that is not being handled by a district.
More than 177 kilometers of civil engineering work are planned as part of the construction measures, so that 1,500 households will be connected to high-speed Internet.
The federal government is funding the expansion with the multi-billion euro federal broadband funding program, from which the Gangkofen market is now also benefiting. More than six million euros are available here alone. In addition, there is a good 3.8 million euros in funding from the Free State of Bavaria and just under 2.3 million euros from the district’s own municipal contribution.
In his remarks, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer emphasized that the upcoming pure fiber optic expansion in the Gangkofen market is currently the largest project in Bavaria in the federal funding program, which is being handled by a single municipality. Within a very short time of the funding decision being issued, the tendering process had begun and the project was now starting with the ground-breaking ceremony. “We need gigabit networks. And everywhere, whether in the city or in the countryside. Fast Internet makes work and everyday life easier for all of us,” said Scheuer.
Gangkofen’s mayor Matthäus Mandl expressed his “deepest gratitude for this great funding achievement” to Federal Minister Andreas Scheuer and the representative of the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs, Ministerialdirigent Dr.-Ing. This project would sustainably improve living and working conditions in the municipality: “Gangkofen only gets this opportunity once.”
Tim Brauckmüller, Managing Director of aconium GmbH as the project sponsor of the federal broadband funding program, also highlighted the exemplary scope of the project in the Gangkofen market. How important it is to create equal living conditions – this is particularly evident in times of crisis such as now. At the same time, the head of the project sponsor praised the good cooperation between the federal government, the state and the district. Local commitment is particularly important. This was exemplary in Gangkofen.
To date, the federal government has approved funding of more than six billion euros for the ongoing broadband expansion in Germany. Further details on the federal funding program can be found on the BMVI website or from the responsible project management agency aconium GmbH.
Information on the federal broadband funding program