Network operator: TKG amendment “important boost” for FTTH, but with a “downer”

The modernization of the Telecommunications Act (TKG) decided by the Bundestag is received with mixed feelings in the industry. The network operators are particularly skeptical of the “right to the Internet” enshrined in the law. The solution found by the legislature for the controversial “additional cost privilege” does not make everyone happy. The fact that Federal Justice Minister Christine…

TKG amendment: Right to fast Internet and fiber-optic allocation

The legal right to fast internet already provided for by the CDU, CSU and SPD in their coalition agreement has finally taken shape. The grand coalition has agreed on a corresponding Part 9 of the amendment to the Telecommunications Act (TKG). Compared to the draft of the federal government, it makes it clear: In order to determine the requirements for the corresponding Internet access service,…

Scheuer plan: CDU chairman against subsidized network expansion in “gray areas”

Maik Beermann, chairman of the digital agenda committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, is currently unable to gain anything from the project by Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, “to promote broadband expansion in the gray areas”. He was in favor of first working through the white spots of the areas that are not yet completely supplied with the…