(PRESS RELEASE) BONN, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Deutsche Telekom completed the first of three tranches of the nearshore rollout. Providing 3,152 nearshore areas across 2,855 local networks and around 1,700,000 households now benefit from faster internet connections with Speeds of up to 250 MBit/s.
Jürgen Hardt, project manager for nearshore rollout at Telekom Deutschland: “The nearshore areas roll-out is a key plant of our broadband strategy. We are proud to have completed the first of three tranches so successfully. This was an excellent team effort from all management areas. The migration in the 394 rollout areas served by the carrier was also provided successfully. We began the rollout in rural areas and are now also increasingly making progress in large cities.”
Deutsche Telekom will lay around 6,000 kilometers of optical fiber in 7,249 nearshore areas and will install more than 30,000 new multi-service access nodes. All 7,600 of Germany’s nearshore areas will be modernized by early 2020 and around six million households will benefit from the rollout.
Nearshore conversion in three phases
Customers can check out whether their line is already benefiting from the increased speeds at www.telekom.de/schneller.
SOURCE: Deutsche Telekom AG
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