Economy to meet requirements for "Broadband for all"

Economy to meet requirements for "Broadband for all" 

Representatives of network operators and equipment vendors have come out at a conference of the German broadband initiative, however, to have to equip every household with a powerful broadband connection. Alf Henryk Wulf, president of Alcatel-Lucent Germany said on Thursday in Berlin, the policy should not be used for such a universal service. Ongoing investment in network expansion would "come to a halt" or otherwise "are devalued." The policy should rather focus on "maximum synergies," says the use of conduits for fiber. Any kind of "double extension" is economically harmful. 

The Bundestag debated the currently ongoing revision of the Telecommunications Act (TKG) about introducing advanced universal service principles. For that, however, "no need", stated Mark Haas of Germany Telefonica. The economy had decided two years ago together with the policy of a "10,000-meter run" to close the remaining gaps on the map of broadband coverage to at least 1 Mbit / sec. "We are appreciated just under 99 percent" before the goal, Andreas Schuseil, head of the Federal Economics Ministry said. He cited the current broadband atlas [4]. 

"The last we will reach 10,000 households with LTE." This could also go even faster when the Federal Network Agency more staff would be available to sign off thousands of applications for microwave radio links. Universal services expand, go against all the agreements with the private sector, which were focused on a competitive infrastructure and technology mix. 

Christopher Clement, regulation expert at Germany Cable said, would be through the Universal Service Discussion "air castles" built an economy because it could not manage to connect even the last farm on fiber or cable networks. The cable company itself have been achieved in field trials 1 Gbit / s with new technology on its network next year and wanted to upgrade the infrastructure.Currently, 60 to 70 percent of German households with an average of 32 Mbit / s are achievable. 

Wolfgang Kopf, regulatory director at Deutsche Telekom, turned one against a new version of the universal service, that his company had to pre-finance as well as the competition. Unlike most competitors, Deutsche Telekom is still exaggerating the network expansion continues in rural areas. This, they argued that the LTE development "largely completed" and that the conditions imposed by the legislature to close gaps in broadband, as well as had been met. 

The CDU Bundestag member Thomas Jarzombek counts himself among the "pragmatists" in the CDU parliamentary group, while there, but even those are well represented, making the case for a more comprehensive universal service. Jarzombek said rapid "success stories of the basis" for LTE Nutzungbedauerte were necessary because many people believed that wireless solutions do not bring the same benefits as the cable connections. As a "universal service on the content level," called the Jarzombek also fought net neutrality. Price differentiation is a feature normally functioning markets. Wanted is so competitive that is taking place on "Quality and rates". To guarantee freedom from discrimination is important but what it initially was sufficient to establish transparency. 

Wulf was made up of equipment for one term, say goodbye to the previous basic principle of the open Internet. Different services must be offered at different prices. This was important in order to finance future networks solid. Schuseil explained entirely in this sense that for the fiber optic network business models would be possible, in which about the transfer of X-ray images with 1 Gbit / s will be charged more expensive than sending an e-mail. Therefore, the discussion about net neutrality is so important.