BREKO appeals to the Bundesrat to support the "one-stop store principle" Regulation offers great potential for accelerating approval procedures BREKO with proposal for implementation and financing Berlin/Bonn, 11.02.2021 The timetable for the adoption of the Telecommunications Modernization Act (TKMoG), or TKG amendment for short, is ambitious. The consultations in the Bundestag and Bundesrat should be completed before the summer break. At its meeting tomorrow, the Bundesrat [...]

Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Economic Affairs, Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann, today signed the "Saxony-Anhalt Fiber Optic Pact" with 21 telecommunications companies and two other partners (ARGE-Breitband Landkreis Börde and Zweckverband Breitband Altmark) in a virtual conference. In it, the contractual partners agree to further intensify their efforts to expand ultra-fast broadband networks in the coming years. The fiber optic pact is therefore an important building block for [...]

TKG amendment: Associations call for modernization of levy eligibility in favor of fiber optics Modernization of levy eligibility accelerates nationwide fiber optic expansion Open network access to strengthen competition and consumer freedom of choice Give companies planning and investment security Berlin, 28.01.2021 On the occasion of the Bundestag's deliberations on the TKG amendment, the Federal Association for Broadband Communication (BREKO), the Federal Association for Fiber Optic Access (BUGLAS) and the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU) [...].

Build Fibre, Save energy! Brussels, 28 January 2021. Breko, Europacable and the FTTH Council Europe call on policy-makers at European, national and local level, to consider the impact of the different broadband technologies on the sustainability of the environment and the European economy when selecting amongst them. In December 2019, the European Commission presented the [...]

New impetus for fiber optic expansion in NRW: BREKO state group takes up work BREKO strengthens work at state level Ninth state group founded in NRW Deutsche Glasfaser appoints state representative Bonn, 25.01.2021 In order to further promote fiber optic expansion at state level, the Federal Association for Broadband Communication (BREKO) is strengthening the state policy area with a new state group. With almost 40 member companies and an investment volume of [...]

Bonn/Berlin 14.01.2021 Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer (CSU) announced today that he wants to provide households with poor internet connections with a voucher for a satellite connection. A voucher program is to be launched to enable households with very poor internet coverage to use satellite capacity in the short term. Areas where speeds of less than ten megabits per second are available [...]

Bonn/Berlin 16.12.2020 The Federal Cabinet today approved the draft of a law to modernize telecommunications law ("Telecommunications Modernization Act" - TKMoG). The Bundestag and Bundesrat will now be involved in the further legislative process. From the BREKO's point of view, there is still a need for amendment in key areas of the law on the way to the future of fiber optics. At central points of the draft law adopted today by the Federal Cabinet [...]

Yesterday evening, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure published the draft bill for a law to modernize telecommunications law ("Telecommunications Modernization Act"). The Federal Government's aim is for the bill to be discussed by the Federal Cabinet on December 16, 2020. Despite some positive amendments to the draft bill compared to the previous version, the [...]

Bonn/Berlin 30.11.2020 The German government's Digital Summit 2020 is taking place today and tomorrow under the motto "Living more sustainably digitally". The focus is on the question of how digitalization can become the driver of sustainability. An important building block of sustainable and climate-friendly digitalization is the expansion of fibre optics as the digital infrastructure with the lowest energy consumption. Digitalization offers [...]

Fiber optic expansion in NRW picks up speed Bonn/Berlin 18.11.2020 Today's Gigabit Summit NRW clearly shows that the expansion of fast Internet in NRW is picking up speed. It is clear that the majority of the fiber optic expansion in the densely populated federal state is being driven by the forty BREKO companies active there, including local and regional network operators as well as national telecommunications providers. A significant proportion of the projects are [...]