Deutsche Telekom has introduced a partnership settlement with regional supplier R-Kom to speculate EUR 100 million to increase the fiber-optic community in Regensburg. Telekom and R-Kom plan to attach the whole metropolis, together with round 100,000 residential and business items, to the high-speed community by 2032 on the newest. The settlement, signed on July 29, contains an open entry community clause, permitting Telekom to supply fiber-optic connections to its prospects by way of the R-Kom community, the official launch stated.
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Technical Cooperation and Community Growth
“New is that sooner or later we can entry fibers reserved for us inside this community,” says Telekom, which may even turn out to be lively because the second community operator in Regensburg. Technically, the cooperation implies that R-Kom will set up a second mild wave fiber for Telekom within the additional growth of the community. This yr, the primary principal distributors of Telekom in Regensburg can be linked to the R-Kom community, in keeping with the official launch.
Lengthy-Time period Advantages and Infrastructure Possession
“Initially of 2025, we’ll increase the primary improvement areas in keeping with this idea and go into operation collectively,” proclaims R-Kom. R-Kom stays the proprietor of the community infrastructure, and Telekom rents the fibers long-term.
Of the overall funding of round EUR 100 million from 2024 to 2032, 80 p.c will go into constructing the brand new community, and round 20 p.c will go into upgrading the present community. Telekom’s fiber-optic community already covers greater than 750,000 kilometers. In Germany, the corporate provides greater than 36 million households and corporations.
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Deutsche Telekom and O2 Telefonica Fiber Optic Partnership
In an earlier improvement introduced on July 25, 2024, Deutsche Telekom and O2 Telefonica deepened their collaboration in fiber optics with a brand new contract that enhances their buying mannequin for fiber-optic connections. This mannequin permits O2 Telefonica to market Telekom’s fiber-optic portfolio to its personal prospects.
The partnership, which extends a 2020 settlement on fastened community cooperation, permits O2 Telefonica to market fiber-optic tariffs to 7.4 million households, with a further 2 million households to be added yearly.
The place Deutsche Telekom has expanded or will additional increase its FTTH community, Telefonica can market the connection and use the fiber optic below the identical beginning situations as Deutsche Telekom based mostly on the contract.
