"I am very pleased that the fiber optic expansion in Höpfigheim and Kleinbottwar will be starting soon. We are very pleased that the infrastructure capacities laid a few years ago have made it possible for us to be one of the first municipalities to be included in Deutsche Telekom's fiber optic expansion program," says Mayor Thomas Winterhalter.
District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier emphasizes: "Despite these current difficult times, we are pleased that the fiber optic expansion in the district of Ludwigsburg is continuing. Here in the two districts of Steinheim an der Murr, too, the pre-marketing quota has been clearly exceeded at well over 100 percent. As promised, we are now getting started together with Telekom!"
"I am also delighted that so many interested parties have already registered for a fiber optic connection. Now we can get started. This is Deutsche Telekom's largest fiber optic program in Germany," explains Sabine Wittlinger, Partner Manager at Deutsche Telekom. She thanks all those responsible in the municipality, the district and the region for their support. "The first households in Steinheim an der Murr will be able to use their fiber optic connection as early as the fourth quarter of 2020. The rapid expansion is possible thanks to the good cooperation with the municipality," says Wittlinger. Extensive civil engineering work is required to lay the fiber optic cables.
"The two districts of Höpfigheim and Kleinbottwar benefit directly from our regional cooperation program with Telekom," explains Hans-Jürgen Bahde, Managing Director of Gigabit Region Stuttgart GmbH (GRS) and broadband representative for the Stuttgart region. "The cooperation agreement ensures that smaller residential areas are also expanded if there is sufficient interest."
Cooperation between Deutsche Telekom and Gigabit Region Stuttgart
The expansion in Steinheim an der Murr in the district of Ludwigsburg is the result of the cooperation between Gigabit Region Stuttgart GmbH and Deutsche Telekom. The focus of the gigabit project is the partnership-based expansion of the ultra-fast fiber optic network. By 2025, 99% of the population should also be able to use mobile communications (LTE). There are also plans to rapidly build a high-performance 5G network. The contract is unique in Germany in this dimension. Other companies will be able to use the digital infrastructure that is now being created at fair and standard market conditions. The program is also intended to stimulate investments in fibre optics by other market participants.
The expansion area currently comprises 174 municipalities in the city of Stuttgart and the five neighboring districts of Böblingen, Esslingen, Göppingen, Ludwigsburg and Rems-Murr. Around 2.8 million people live in this metropolitan area. Around 140,000 companies are located there.
Deutsche Telekom AG
Corporate Communications
Lena Raschke
Phone: 0228 181 - 49494
E-mail: medien[at]telekom.de
Gigabit Region Stuttgart
Gigabit Region Stuttgart GmbH
Helmuth Haag
Phone: 0711-22835-13
