Some people surf at only 384 kilobits per second, but from now on they can have their connection accelerated to at least 16 and up to 50 megabits per second. "After a long and sometimes rocky road, the time has finally come", comments broadband godfather and head of administration anton kiefer on volker’s catering. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been on the case, collecting data, making demands. After a long struggle with the government of lower franconia, the city council finally decided in favor of the fiber-optic cable solution, which kiefer considers more promising for the future.
"We have installed five kilometers of fiber optics", reports klaus markert, head of projects at telekom. The existing empty conduits were an advantage: "the civil engineering work was negligible." the fact that the 250 or so households had to wait so long is an advantage in retrospect: because VDSL was immediately installed in the distribution barriers, hence the 16 megabits per second as the lower limit.
The broadband supply cost around 109 euros.000 euro, the city got a subsidy of almost 65.000 euro and had to pay almost 28.Push 000 euro by yourself. The connection of the volkersberg youth education center, which will then be well supplied with 20 megabits per second, is already in the works.