2023-10-26 22:11:54
We live in digital Germany 2023. Internet in metropolitan areas? No problem, one would think. Daniela (27) and Niko Klemm (28) also took it for granted. But: thought wrong!
The accountant and the retail salesman have just moved into their newly built 133 square meter house in the 35,000-inhabitant community of Stuhr (Lower Saxony). However, the young couple tries to get an internet connection in vain. The crazy reason: The gray-green distribution box on the side of the road is full, says Telekom. “So all of our neighbors have a connection, except us,” says a frustrated Daniela Klemm.
Niko and Daniela Klemm stand at the fully occupied distribution box that no longer has any space for them
Photo: emha
Simply upgrading slots wouldn’t work. You have to dig, lay new cables and build another box. That’s too expensive, says the T-giant. That’s it.
A small spark of hope: After complaining to the Federal Network Agency, there was an on-site inspection with the competition watchdogs, a community representative and the telecommunications companies Vodafone, EweTel and Glasfaser Nordwest.
Daniela Klemm: “The companies were then asked to send us an offer. Only Vodafone did it – and that completely blew us away.”
The demand: an impressive 17,552.50 euros! For 175 meters of cable trench, of which 120 meters are under public asphalt, 55 meters through the neighbor’s garden.
Vodafone sent this offer to the couple: 17,552.50 euros for 175 meters of cable trench
Photo: private
Clearly that is out of the question. The Federal Network Agency’s arbitration proposal therefore: a mobile communications solution. Building owner Daniela: “We got a Giga Cube: 300 GB for 45 euros a month.”
The big BUT: “It gets difficult when it’s windy, the streaming image shakes, the telephone connection keeps dropping out. From the middle of the month we panic that the internet volume will no longer be enough by the end of the month.”
The Klemm couple have a nice office in their house, but they can’t work there without the internet
Photo: emha
So the couple, who had started their new life with such motivation, unfortunately had to give up their plans for self-employment. Daniela Klemm: “We had to close our planned online shop for fence accessories again.”
Because a stable fiber optic internet connection remains a long way off. Lothar Wimmelmeier, head of the Stuhr economic development department, told BILD: “As a municipality, we do everything we can to ensure that our citizens are provided for as well as possible. However, municipalities have no option to oblige companies to expand the network.”
Somehow things aren’t going well in digital Germany in 2023. BILD is staying tuned.
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