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5G Study Published

5G Study Published

On behalf of “Hessen Trade & Invest” (HTAI), aconium GmbH has written a study that addresses the challenges facing municipalities in the expansion of the 5th generation of mobile communications (5G). It was published by the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy,...

Information event for grant recipients at the BMVI

Information event for grant recipients at the BMVI

On October 10, 2017, around 90 participants came together at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in Berlin to find out about the next steps in the process following the approval of the provisional funding amount for their broadband...

Groundbreaking ceremony in the Main-Tauber district

Groundbreaking ceremony in the Main-Tauber district

On Monday, October 9, 2017, the ground-breaking ceremony took place in expansion area number 4 in the Main-Tauber district. The fourth of nine construction phases for the fiber optic expansion in Freudenberg-Ebenheid and Külsheim kicked off on 9 October 2017. Around...

Project Idea Café at the BSSSC Annual Conference 2017, 22 September

Project Idea Café at the BSSSC Annual Conference 2017, 22 September

The Project Idea Café is an opportunity for project idea owners to present their projects to potential partners and funding programmes, to discuss their project ideas with partners as well as to learn about selected funding programmes in the region. Five...

Kickoff meeting of EPIC project in Barcelona

Kickoff meeting of EPIC project in Barcelona

At the end of September, project partners of EPIC – improving employability through internationalisation and collaboration – met in Barcelona. Amongst them employees of aconium GmbH. On 21 and 22 September, the EPIC partner consortium met for the first...

Introducing the finalists of the European Broadband Awards 2017

Introducing the finalists of the European Broadband Awards 2017

The jury selected 15 finalists of the European Broadband Awards 2017. Find out who are the nominated projects. The winners will be awarded on 20 November at the Broadband Days 2017. Altogether 49 projects from 20 countries from all over Europe applied for...

Funding decision and ground-breaking ceremony in Amtsberg

Funding decision and ground-breaking ceremony in Amtsberg

On September 19, political representatives and participating companies came together in Amtsberg, Saxony, to witness the start of construction of the municipality's high-speed broadband network in the Erzgebirge district in a festive ceremony. Instead of a symbolic...

Groundbreaking ceremony for the fiber optic network in Uelzen

Groundbreaking ceremony for the fiber optic network in Uelzen

The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the fiber optic network in the district of Uelzen took place in Steddorf on 13 September. In addition to various political representatives of the municipality and the companies involved, numerous visitors also came...

The heath is glowing – groundbreaking ceremony in Schneverdingen

The heath is glowing – groundbreaking ceremony in Schneverdingen

On September 11, the groundbreaking ceremony for the nationwide expansion of high-speed Internet in the Heidekreis was held in a festive setting. The event was attended by Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer, State Commissioner for Regional Development...

Commissioning in the municipality of Egestorf

Commissioning in the municipality of Egestorf

On September 6, the district of Döhle in the municipality of Egestorf was ceremoniously put into operation with the flipping of the symbolic switch. From now on, the residents there can benefit from an FTTH fiber optic network. This was made possible by...

Colibri: Final in Copenhagen

Colibri: Final in Copenhagen

After the end of the third semester of the "Future Internet Opportunities" course in July, which was designed as part of the Erasmus+-funded Colibri project, the project partners held a final management meeting in August. The aim of Colibri was to improve the quality...