mobile network
Soon reception in the hiking area: first dead spot in sight
The mission of the federal mobile infrastructure company: close dead spots. photo
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The contract goes to a Telekom subsidiary. The mobile infrastructure company has handed over its first funding decision. Your goal: Fewer dead spots in the German network.
Almost two years after it was founded, a state-owned company issued a funding notice so that the first dead zone could be closed under its direction.
The Telekom subsidiary Deutsche Funkturm GmbH was awarded the contract to build a radio mast in a hiking area in the Bavarian town of Lambach in the Cham district, as announced by the mobile communications infrastructure company (MIG). Financial details were not disclosed. The handover of the first funding notice is “an important milestone for nationwide mobile phone coverage in Germany,” said MIG boss Ernst-Ferdinand Wilmsmann.
MIG, founded in January 2021, has 1.1 billion euros from federal funds at its disposal to close dead spots. By the end of 2025, almost all German households (99.95 percent) and 97.5 percent of the area should be covered with the 4G mobile communications standard. At the beginning of 2022, the area share of 4G was 96.17 percent.
In numerous market investigations, the company, also known as the “dead spot authority”, clarified where dead spots would continue to exist in the future without state support. She then launched calls for funding for these areas, in which infrastructure companies were asked to participate. Now it is clear who will get the first notification. By the end of 2023, the radio blackout in the Cham district should have disappeared.