Lower Bavarian municipalities receive millions in funding for high-speed Internet

21.08.2018

Andreas Scheuer (Bundesminister für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur) und Dr. Annette Schumacher (Mitglied der Ge-schäftsführung aconium) bei der Bescheidübergabe in Passau am 20.08.2018

On August 20, Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and Annette Schumacher, member of the management board of the project sponsor aconium, handed over funding decisions from the federal funding program for broadband expansion to representatives from nine Lower Bavarian municipalities.

This means that around 13.4 million euros in federal funding will flow into expansion projects in the towns of Waldkirchen and Vilshofen an der Donau as well as in the municipalities of Hohenau, Markt Gangkofen, Haarbach, Salzweg, Tiefenbach, Markt Fürstenzell and Hutthurm. The Free State of Bavaria is contributing nearly five million euros. The funds will be used to carry out a total of 327 kilometers of civil engineering work in the rural project areas and connect 4,455 households and 603 companies to high-speed Internet.

Annette Schumacher: “As the project sponsor of the broadband expansion funding program, aconium GmbH had approved almost four billion euros for over 700 expansion projects by municipalities and districts by the summer of 2018. These are now gradually entering the construction phase and can be launched in two to three years. That was a tour de force. Despite the amount of bureaucratic requirements, we have brought the municipalities and districts safely to their destination. We now need to pick up the pace with the broadband projects. The current funding guideline has been further developed and is therefore already geared towards the gigabit targets. This will enable us to make the infrastructure of rural areas fit for the future.”
Federal broadband funding program

Photo: Andreas Scheuer (Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure) and Dr. Annette Schumacher (member of the aconium management board) at the handover of the decision in Passau on 20.08.2018.
Photo credit: aconium GmbH