According to an internal E-mail of the management, which the Rhenish Post is present, stops Vodafone its fiber optic offensive. Shortly before this, the Group stated that, in addition to its mobile network, which was being CHIP Network Test has reached second place, independent fiber optic networks to the customer are also to be strongly expanded.
Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter said in November 2020: "We are pulling even more Fiber Optics into the network. We'll soon double the upload speed and gradually accelerate up to 10 gigabits in download."
The e-mail now states that "no new commercial areas will be included in our pre-marketing". According to the e-mail, Vodafone will also be "extremely selective when it comes to the development of new residential areas". In concrete terms, this means that fibre optic will only be expanded where projects also help to expand and upgrade the nationwide cable network.
150,000 households and 23,000 companies receive fiber optics
Fibre optic projects already agreed, which at Vodafone Germany affect around 150,000 households and 23,000 companies, will be completed despite the end of the fibre optic offensive. After that, the fibre-optic expansion will only take place to connect the company's own cable networks.
Vodafone explained to Golem.de: "We want to satisfy the hunger for bandwidth with investments. To this end, we are now rededicating future parts of our existing fiber optic activities".
