Bamberg goes digital: fiber optics for every household by 2025!

Bamberg goes digital: fiber optics for every household by 2025!

Something is really happening in the area of ​​internet provision in the city of Bamberg! The city has commissioned Stadtwerke Bamberg to push ahead with a comprehensive fiber optic expansion so that every apartment can benefit from the advantages of super-fast internet. The initiative is no coincidence: In times of home office, streaming and online gaming, it is becoming important for more and more households to have access to a stable internet connection. Wiesentbote reports on the development of Telekom distribution boxes with fiber optics, which is already in full swing. The goal? Bringing fiber optics to every home.

The expansion is currently concentrated in four areas: Kapuzinerstrasse and Fischer with 560 households, Hans-Birkmayr-Strasse and Theodor-Heuss-Ring with 330 households, Nürnberger Strasse (560 households) and Jahnstrasse (420 households). There is even a free house connection for building owners during the construction phase so that they can also enjoy the high bandwidths. Residents who choose a connection can achieve transfer rates of up to 2 Gbit/s, which is invaluable, especially in today's world.

The advantages of fiber optic expansion

A stable internet connection has many advantages. It is not only ideal for home office and streaming, but also for online gaming. If you consider that the demand for high data volumes is constantly increasing, it becomes clear why the topic is so popular. 【Stadtwerke Bamberg】 remind you that continuous fiber optic cabling improves internet usage and can even increase property value.

That's not all: the municipal utilities point out that it makes sense to lay the fiber optic cable all the way to the router in the building. Free fiber optic cable is provided and there is an all-round expansion service for apartment buildings. The building cooperative for the city and district of Bamberg has already taken precautions to enable fast internet connections in the apartments of its 1,500 tenants. Tenants can look forward to lightning-fast internet starting at 24.90 euros per month.

A look at the nationwide gigabit strategy

If you look beyond the city limits of Bamberg, the relevance of the topic becomes even clearer. The federal government's gigabit strategy envisages equipping all households and companies with fiber optic connections across the board by 2030. This strategy is part of an acceleration law that is intended not only to simplify the approval process, but also to ensure that untouched areas are developed more quickly. Federal government emphasizes that almost 99 percent of households in Germany already have access to broadband connections and over 85 percent can achieve at least 200 megabits per second. Over 76.5 percent of households are even equipped with gigabit connections.

Overall, the development in Bamberg shows how important the expansion of high-performance Internet connections has become. The city is on the right track to not only offer its citizens a modern standard of living, but also to enable them to take a step into the digital future. If you would like to find out more about the availability of fiber optic connections, you can use the address check on www.bambit.de.