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Baden-Wrttemberg will also make great progress in broadband expansion in 2022 and will occupy a top position in a comparison of the federal states. Around 85000 new connections were funded with around 490 million euros.Since 2016 Baden-Wrttemberg has moved from the middle to the top for fast internet. And the current figures show 2022 was another good and very successful year for broadband expansion in Baden-Wrttemberg. In the current broadband atlasof the federal government part of the new gigabit land register Baden-Wrttemberg occupies a top position in the supply of gigabit speeds. Within just one and a half years we were able to increase by a rapid 10.2 percentage points. This is a great success for the development in digital.LND. The increasingly fast Internet is also the result of a massive billion-euro investment offensive Since 2016 we as a state have invested 2.17 billion euros in the expansion of the fast Internet and brought another 2.58 billion euros from the federal government to Baden-Wrttemberg through an intelligent funding policy. So we fired up the gigabit turbo. Our country in particular our location for technology and innovation is dependent on fast internet that is the lifeline of the digital society explained the Deputy Prime MinisterThomas Strobl in Stuttgart.Goal nationwide gigabit expansion by 2025The goal of the state government is the nationwide gigabit expansion in the state by 2025. In terms of gigabit speeds Baden-Wrttemberg is almost 70 percent around 10 percentage points above the average of the non-city states in Germany approx. 59.7 percent and ranks 4th out of 13 of which around 11 percent of Baden-Wrttemberg households already have an FTTBH connection and around 336000 subsidized fiber optic connections are currently being expanded.In addition according to the Broadband Atlas as of the end of 2022 92.77 percent of households in Baden-Wrttemberg have an Internet connection with a download speed of at least 50 Mbits. This means an increase of around 20 percentage points compared to mid-2016 when only 72.8 percent of households had 50 Mbits downloads.88.86 percent of households have access to at least 100 Mbits. This means an increase of more than 21 percentage points compared to mid-2018 when only 67.7 percent of households had 100 Mbits downloads.Billion investment offensiveThe nationwide supply of people and companies with fast internet is the greatest infrastructure task of our time. As the state government we take this challenge very seriously so that Baden-Wrttemberg can continue to stay ahead of the competition in the international location competition. To this end we have been running a billion-euro investment offensive since we took office and support the broadband projects of the municipalities districts and special-purpose associations in the state with a great deal of investment power in the form of grants said Digitization Minister Strobl.In 2022 alone a total of 241 applications totaling 489.99 million euros were approved on three handover dates. The handover round on December 6 2022 was the date with the highest total funding amount since broadband funding began in Baden-Wrttemberg. Almost 85000 fiber optic connections were funded with these funds.In total the state EUR 2.17 billion and the federal government EUR 2.58 billion have invested a total of around EUR 4.75 billion in the construction of fiber optic networks since 2016 as of December 14 2022.The approvals are the starting signal for the expansion directly on site. The state has done its homework for 2023 and will again make a three-digit million amount available to support broadband expansion explained Digitization Minister Thomas Strobl.
