Berlin – The solution is so simple and obvious that one wonders why someone has only now thought of it. Simon Schmidt laughs. “The idea is one thing, doing the other,” he says. The 36-year-old is part of Vattenfall’s fiber optic project, which was started after the energy company’s strategists discovered the potential of their own district heating network in Berlin while looking for new business models. Because this consists not only of cables and pipes, but in its specialty of a tunnel system that runs through the east and west of the city equally. Cables for fast Internet are now to be laid there. Without civil engineering work, without lengthy approval procedures, without blocked roads.
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