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Cooperation should accelerate fiber optic expansion
Fast internet through fiber optics should come to rental apartments more quickly through a cooperation. photo
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Anyone who lives in a rented apartment and would like to have fiber optics is dependent on the cooperation of their landlord. The connection is now to be made easier for a good third of the rental apartments in Germany.
In the competition for the supply of rental apartments in Things are moving in Germany with a fast fiber optic internet connection. The Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW), Vodafone and the fiber optic alliance OXG announced a cooperation on fiber optic expansion in the German housing industry.
Last May, GdW had already agreed on a similar partnership with Deutsche Telekom. The companies organized in the GdW provide around a third of the rental apartments in Germany.
Vodafone explained that it had decided on a joint position paper in which the cooperation partners “agreed on concrete guidelines for the expansion of fiber optics in the members’ real estate portfolio.” “They make expansion into residential properties quicker and easier than before,” said Philippe Rogge, CEO at Vodafone Germany. “We are pursuing a common goal: to bring fiber optics into residential properties more easily and quickly than is usual on the market – both small and large.”
In terms of the division of work between the partners, the fiber optic alliance OXG, which Vodafone launched together with the internationally active fiber optic specialist Altice, is responsible for the free fiber optic expansion to every residential unit (Fiber to the Home). OXG also takes care of the operation and maintenance of the infrastructure.
Those involved emphasized that the network is open to all market participants. Tenants could decide for themselves which of the providers available via the fiber optic network they would like to use.