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Expansion project in the Neuwied district completed
After 20 months of construction in eight phases, the subsidized broadband expansion project in the district of Neuwied was completed on November 22, 2018. The commissioning of the network with bandwidths of at least 50 Mbit/s marks an important step into the future...
Groundbreaking ceremony for broadband expansion in the district of Lüneburg
Lüdersburg, a municipality in the joint municipality of Scharnebeck, was the venue for the start of the expansion of the fiber optic network in the district of Lüneburg. The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony took place in front of the volunteer fire department...
Winner of the European Broadband Awards
The winners of the European Broadband Awards 2018 were honored at an awards ceremony in Brussels on 19 November. The European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and the Commissioner for Regional Development Corina Creţu honored five projects....
Interreg summit in Lüneburg
On November 19, representatives of more than ten ongoing Interreg projects from Lower Saxony met in Lüneburg to exchange experiences. The meeting was organized and moderated by the Lüneburg Office for Regional Development. Dr. Monika von Haaren from the Lower Saxony...
New version of the BFP guide
A new version of the guideline "Funding to support broadband expansion in the Federal Republic of Germany" has been available since November 15, 2018. The calculation of the pick-up threshold as part of the special call for commercial and industrial areas and ports...
Hypermotion – Paths to the Traffic Turnaround
The turnaround in transportation that is necessary in terms of sustainability and climate protection is based on two basic prerequisites: Digitalisation and renewable energies. Digitalisation creates the broadband infrastructure that is necessary for the logistics of...
CORA Annual Conference – Overcoming the Digital Divide Together
The annual conference of the CORA (COnnecting Remote Areas with digital infrastructure and services) project took place in Kiel on November 13, 2018. Jan Philipp Albrecht (Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitalisation of the State...
Ground-breaking ceremony: St. Englmar opens the “gateway to the future”
On November 13, 2018, the ground-breaking ceremony for the broadband expansion took place in St. Englmar in the Straubing-Bogen district (Bavaria). Divided into two individual projects, a total of eight municipalities in the region had joined forces to expand the NGA...
aconium at Hypermotion: Space for new Ideas
Next week, aconium GmbH's exhibition space at the Hypermotion trade fair will bring together a colorful bouquet of companies that want to shape the sustainable mobility of tomorrow: Digital experts, infrastructure professionals, creative start-ups, inventors,...
Revision of the broadband funding guideline
The amended guideline "Funding to support broadband expansion in the Federal Republic of Germany" (PDF) is available in a revised version as of November 15, 2018. The regulation on the special call for schools and hospitals has been newly included. In addition, it...
Revision of the special call for commercial areas
The special program for the promotion of commercial and industrial areas as well as ports will be renewed with the revision of the amended guideline "Promotion to support broadband expansion in the Federal Republic of Germany" on 15.11.2018. The calculation of the...
BMVI launches special broadband program for schools and hospitals
On November 15, 2018, the special call for applications for "schools and hospitals" under the federal broadband funding program will start. Local authorities can apply for funding for connections to schools and hospitals with symmetrical coverage of one gigabit/s as...