When it comes to fast internet, the municipality of Peiting is one of the pioneers throughout Bavaria: In a final expansion of the fiber optic network, all businesses and residential units on the outskirts and in the outskirts are now connected for four million euros.
Peiting - home schooling, home office: The corona crisis showed that fast internet is now more important than ever before. How good that, long before the crisis, in 2017, the Peiting market decided by a municipal council resolution to take money into their hands. Fast network for every citizen without exception, that is the motto. It should be at least 50 Mbit - at that time it was a noble goal, a dream, so to speak. The development has long since caught up with the requirement: With the connection of residents and companies in the outskirts, as well as in the outdoor area, dream speeds of up to 1000 megabits per second are achieved.
But what does that mean in concrete terms?
“The new network will be so powerful that it will be possible to make phone calls, surf the web and watch TV at the same time.
Streaming music and videos or storing them in the cloud is also more convenient, ”explains Klaus Strauss from Telekom.
It is the municipality's partner in matters of expansion, which started the last of three expansion stages yesterday with a groundbreaking ceremony in the Peiting-Süd industrial area.
43 kilometers of fiber optic cables are being laid
After the work has been completed, an incredible 64 kilometers of speednet pipe association will have been laid - this corresponds to the route from Peiting to Munich.
In addition, there are 43 kilometers of fiber optic cables that are pulled into the pipes.
The lines extend in the south to the local border Steingaden, connect Birkland, Herzogsägmühle, the Lexe and actually every hamlet in the outer area.
The connection of the connections is planned for autumn 2022.
370 house connections are planned - this corresponds to around ten percent of all households in the town.
To make all of this possible, employees of the town hall and Telekom specialists not only marched through the forest once, "and looked where we could put the lines," reported Peiting's Mayor Peter Ostenrieder.
at the groundbreaking.
The costs for the expansion in the last section amount to around four million euros. The federal government had already granted funding for this section in 2019. At that time it was still two million euros. But just like the rapid development in the technical field, the municipality also had to state: "The costs have suddenly risen quite a bit," said Ostenrieder. Finally, the Free State of Bavaria jumped another 800,000 euros, so that the municipality of Peiting now has to add another 1.2 million euros.
“What used to be sewers and water is now broadband,” agreed the community leader and Daniel Artmann from “AteneKOM”.
He is the representative of the project executing agency for the federal funding program and in Peiting got an idea of how this is implemented on site, what his employees usually check at their desks.
Network planning, financial planning: At “AteneKOM”, municipalities and telecom have to present their plans in detail so that funding flows.
After all: it manages twelve billion euros, which the federal government is investing in broadband expansion.
"Broadband is a location factor today"
Artmann praised the wise foresight of the Peitinger municipal council, which would have relied on broadband expansion long before Corona. “Broadband is a location factor today.” Both in terms of the settlement of businesses and the influx of new residents who need fast Internet for home offices, he emphasized. Especially in rural areas, agriculture must also be considered, which is also increasingly dependent on the fast Internet, added Ostenrieder.
In fact, this project also comes down to give and take: “We need the farmers too, we may have to dig on private land,” explained Klaus Strauss from Telekom.
For this purpose, joint use contracts must be approved.
"We hope to meet you." This also applies to private households, so that connections can be made from the property line to the house.
Incidentally, this is ensured by 30 employees from the executing company Ziselsberger, which specializes in fiber optic expansion.
According to Artmann, there are more than 2500 fiber optic expansion projects going on throughout Germany.
"So it is not true that nothing is progressing." Klaus Strauss: "Peiting is one of the larger projects, a challenge."
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