We welcome the commitment of the signatory associations to actively support the goals of the European 'Digital Decade' and the European 'Green Deal'. BREKO and its more than 430 member companies are also working every day to promote the expansion of future-proof fiber optic networks as the basis for a sustainable digital transformation.

Berlin, July 13, 2022 Today, the German government presented its plan for the further expansion of the digital infrastructure in Germany with the Gigabit Strategy. Even though the strategy paper contains suitable approaches for a faster expansion of fiber optics, the federal government is missing the opportunity to adapt the expansion of fiber optics to the current market dynamics and thus accelerate it through a sensible design of state funding.

Today, the Federal Cabinet will approve the draft federal budget for 2023 and the financial plan up to 2026. Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner is planning a return to the "debt brake". The German Broadband Association (BREKO) has issued the following statement:

Essen, 22 June 2022 The Glasfaserforum Nordrhein-Westfalen 2022 brought together the most important players in fiber optic expansion in Germany's largest federal state for the fourth time today in Essen. At the event organized by the German Broadband Association (BREKO) together with its partners con|energy and MICUS Strategieberatung as part of E-world, Europe's largest energy trade fair, participants from the telecommunications industry, federal, state and local politics discussed the efficient dovetailing of self-funded and subsidized fiber optic expansion, digital approval procedures, alternative installation methods and other highly topical fiber optic issues.

The German Broadband Association (BREKO) comments on today's proposal by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) on the future regulation of Telekom's fixed network: "We support the goal formulated by BNetzA President Klaus Müller of advancing the expansion of fiber optics as quickly as possible with stable, transparent and competition-oriented framework conditions. However, based on today's press release from the BNetzA, BREKO considers it questionable whether the right means have been chosen to achieve this goal."

Wiesbaden, 15 June 2022 - After two successful trade fair days with more than 5,500 trade visitors, the digital and fiber optic trade fair fiberdays 22 ends today with a new visitor record. While the congress program was dominated by controversies surrounding the German government's upcoming gigabit strategy, practical topics were discussed in numerous seminars and workshops. The more than 230 exhibitors were consistently satisfied.

Wiesbaden, 14 June 2022 The fiberdays are back in the exhibition hall: For the first time, the German Broadband Association (BREKO) is presenting the trade fair and congress event for the telecommunications and digital industry on 10,000 square meters in two exhibition halls of the RheinMain CongressCenter in Wiesbaden. The congress on digitalization, digital infrastructure and fibre optic expansion was opened today by Daniela Kluckert, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, and the Hessian Digital Minister Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus.

The German Broadband Association (BREKO) comments on today's decision by the Bundesrat on the ordinance on the minimum requirements for the right to be provided with telecommunications services: "The fact that the Bundesrat gave up its blockade at the last second was long overdue. The demands for higher bandwidths and latency requirements could not be justified from a legal or technical perspective."

The Hessian state government has agreed on joint goals and measures with eleven telecommunications companies as well as the German Broadband Association (BREKO) and the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU) in order to provide the state with real fiber optic connections nationwide by 2030.

Berlin, 11 May 2022: On the occasion of the G7 Digital Ministers' Meeting, the associations of the German ICT industry are calling for a holistic view of digitalization and sustainability in a national and international context. On the one hand, the use of digital infrastructures and technologies makes it possible to save enormous resources across sectors. On the other hand, digitalization consumes energy through the use of devices and network operation, which will be continuously optimized in the interests of sustainable business. A joint association paper proposes measures on how digitalization and sustainability can be discussed together nationally and internationally.