Federal slows fast Internet.

By the end of 2010, the Government had decided that Germany is really a fast Internet infrastructure have - for the emergency by radio. Now the Federal radioed in between. He adjourned the decision on the expansion in order to clarify an open question: Who should pay?

 

Berlin - The Federal Council's decision on a better coverage of rural regions with fast Internet connections postponed. The issue was at the meeting on Friday from the agenda. The countries wanted to start with the federal government to discuss who bears the costs for the changeover wearing, it was from the Federal circles in Berlin. Probably will be the topic at the next meeting in mid-June treated.

Official figures: Only if one 384-kb mini-DSL via ISDN mitzählt, Germany stands as middling in comparison

The federal cabinet had decided in March, the radio spectrum for broadband wireless applications release. The federal government wants to achieve that fast browsing on the Internet by the end of 2010 in Germany will be possible. The relevant regulation, the Chamber of countries still agree. It has been estimated that around five million German citizens from a quick internet cut off.

According to the high-tech association Bitkom in Germany there are still some 800 municipalities, in which only high speed internet via satellite is available. These "white spots" should be closed quickly. This would require the vacated spectrum should be used to rural regions with cheap and fast Internet access to care. The frequencies are ordered by association information currently hardly used.

Background: It is far worse than admitted is

The much-DSL-gap question often starts a few kilometers outside of major conurbations. When supplies are areas where they basically opportunities for fast network connections open - whether it be affordable for consumers, is on a completely different story. The telecommunications companies to build the structure only if the counts for them.

For example, the German Telekom offers in rural areas as a kind of "DSL Lite" at (ADSL over ISDN), which represents less claims, but only dual ISDN speed - and thus about one 150tel of what the telecom than in metropolitan areas to offer. Even those offers will have a broadband internet counted the statistics and come verschönernd benefit: Without them, Germany would be in comparison to the EU significantly worse since.

DSL (short for "Digital Subscriber Line) is a technique in which spatial proximity between the connection of the end user and the switch may be. DSL allows broadband Internet connections over traditional copper telephone cable. The also have weaknesses: The transmitted signal is lost with increasing distance to the exchange of stability and performance. The leadership must lead directly to the exchange, and must not be interrupted multiplexer. You must also not exceed the maximum length (currently about 6 km maximum).

Kupfelkabel transmit data only on the so-called last mile to the telephone: From the switchboard need a fiber connection to the necessary bandwidth available to you. But it can not only DSL in rural areas fail: If the switch does not have enough ports to connect the customers who do virtually the demand exceeds supply.

Since 2006, helping the government in strengthening the financial infrastructure to, but not far enough: In international comparison Germany's infrastructure is rather mediocre as the broadband expansion is therefore only slightly above average, because even the feeble light lines are added.