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Commissioning of the fourth expansion cluster in the district of Fulda
Cluster 4 was officially launched in the district of Fulda on March 28. District Administrator Bernd Woide and Mayor Klaus-Dieter Vogler met with representatives of the municipality of Hofbieber and the project sponsor, aconium, of the Federal Ministry of Transport...
Starting signal for commissioning the network in Hohe Börde
Saxony-Anhalt's Minister President Reiner Haseloff described the municipality of Hohe Börde as an "exemplary broadband community in rural Saxony-Anhalt" during his visit on March 26, 2018. Together with municipal mayor Steffi Trittel and member of the Bundestag...
Publication of sample texts from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure at www.breitbandausschreibungen.de
The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), as the funding body for the federal funding program for broadband expansion, has decided to support the funding recipients in structuring the legal relationship with the selected telecommunications...
Get ready for the 2018 European Broadband Awards!
Are you (or have you been) involved in a project providing citizens with access to high-speed broadband internet? Then you may be a candidate for the 2018 European Broadband Awards! All successfully implemented or advanced projects, big or small, rural or...
Contract signed for broadband expansion in the Salzland district
On 21 March, District Administrator Markus Bauer welcomed the mayors, mayors of the municipalities and representatives of the towns and municipalities as well as the State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Science and Digitalisation and the telecommunications companies...
Dialogue and exchange of experience on the topic of broadband expansion in Hesse
On March 21, 2018, representatives from aconium GmbH's regional office for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland met with state politicians at the Hessian state parliament in Wiesbaden for a discussion. The focus of the exchange of experiences between regional...
Kick-off for broadband expansion in the municipality of Muldestausee
The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony in the Mühlbeck district on March 22 marked the start of the subsidized broadband expansion in the municipality of Muldestausee in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld (Saxony-Anhalt). State Secretary Thomas Wünsch (Ministry of...
Installation Methods for Broadband Expansion
Broadband expansion in the Federal Republic of Germany is progressing. In many places in the country, there are construction sites where civil engineering companies are laying the necessary empty conduits for the creation of high-performance broadband networks,...
Third “Consultants’ Day” in March at the BMVI
Around 130 consultants from all over Germany gathered in Berlin on March 7 for an information event on the federal broadband funding program. At the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure(BMVI), the project management agency aconium, which has been...
Groundbreaking ceremony at the gateway to the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park
With a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony at the Hunsrückhaus, a good 20 kilometers west of Idar-Oberstein, the broadband expansion for around 100 municipalities and districts of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district began on 19.03.2018. State Secretary Randolf Stich...
On the way to the smart city: groundbreaking ceremony in Emsdetten
The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the broadband expansion took place in the Veltrup district of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Emsdetten on March 22, 2018. Representatives and project coordinators from the city of Emsdetten and representatives from the...
Increasing the external effect of projects – Interreg VB Baltic Sea Region communication seminar in Lübeck
An essential element of project funding in Interreg programs is the effective communication of activities and results in order to enable an exchange of experience in the program areas and beyond and to allow many stakeholders to participate. Communication and public...