Displeasure with fiber optic construction sites: not as smooth as expected
Created: 06/22/2022, 11:00 am
By: Martin Becker
There is dissatisfaction with fiber optic construction sites in Unterhaching.
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In theory and in pretty advertising brochures, everything sounds great and easy.
Fast internet, via fiber optics, of course.
About a year and a half ago, a Telekom expert was connected via video in Unterhaching to explain the expansion plans.
Now there is a certain disillusionment.
Unterhaching
- The stream of data does not race through the lines quite as smoothly as expected.
A man from Unterhaching vented his displeasure by sending an email to the Munich newspaper Merkur.
"Like the rest of the place, I suffer from the construction sites of the fiber optic expansion of Telekom," writes the citizen from Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse.
"The fiber optic expansion is subsidized with billions of euros in tax money, then implemented sloppily and is now to be repaired by the taxpayer." He alludes to the fact that "the municipality wants to make advance payments to repair damage".
Which is basically a "waste of tax money".
problem subcontractor
When asked, City Hall spokesman Simon Hötzl conceded: "Where there is imminent danger, we always have to act immediately." “.
And therein lies the problem, when there are problems: who to contact?
The complex network of companies involved "makes it difficult for us," says Simon Hötzl.
“We are currently trying to come to an amicable agreement with the various subcontractors of Deutsche Telekom.
There is no question for us that the work was not carried out free of defects.
If all of these attempts are unsuccessful, we as a community will have to make advance payments, repair the damage with the road construction company we have commissioned and try to win compensation for damages.”
Long process to reach agreement
So a botch in the highly praised fiber optic expansion, which the municipality is initially compensating for?
"Overall, we are confident that we will come to an agreement with all companies, but it will always be a long process," says the town hall spokesman.
Especially with the problem described by our reader in the settlement on Rodelberg "there are some stumbling blocks with the cobblestones - not to mention the appearance and design".
No, with the fast internet it bumps rather than flops.
"But it's important to us to get fiber optics into homes quickly and across the board," emphasizes Simon Hötzl.
"The municipal council gave us this job, and this is also what the population is demanding." That's why, says the town hall spokesman, "we also use some of our resources to monitor the construction progress and to do the follow-up work that is sometimes necessary".