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"The digital infrastructure is the key to a successful future. With our broadband funding, we are sending a strong signal that we are continuing to advance digitization in Baden-Württemberg - both in cities and in rural regions. That is why we are investing heavily from the state budget in the expansion of turbo-fast Internet: 36 million euros today and - if the state parliament decides as we have proposed - 1.1 billion euros in the next two years," said Deputy Prime Minister, Interior and Digitization Minister Thomas Strobl, at the handover at the Digitization Ministry in Stuttgart.
At the meeting on December 3, 2024, Digitalization Minister Thomas Strobl handed over 13 grant notifications for ten grant recipients from ten districts totaling 36.37 million euros. In total, the funding applications will create 6,985 new broadband connections. These include six school connections, 326 connections for companies, seven connections for public institutions and twelve connections for hard-to-reach properties.
Funded projects
The highest funding amount for an individual project is being received by the broadband supply association in the Ravensburg district, amounting to 12.43 million euros for the FTTB (Fibre to the Building) expansion of the underserved areas in Bad Wurzach. The total expenditure is around 31.07 million euros, of which the federal government is providing 50 percent of around 15.53 million euros. The broadband supply association in the Ravensburg district is contributing ten percent of its own funds.
The municipality of Oberreichenbach in the Calw district will receive 2.38 million euros. This will be used to develop underserved areas using FTTB technology.
The town of Tengen in the Konstanz district is expanding under-supplied buildings in the municipality. The town is receiving a total of 4.6 million euros in funding for this.
Breitband Ortenau GmbH & Co. KG will receive 3.68 million euros for the FTTB expansion of the underserved address points in the municipality of Lautenbach and the expansion in the municipality of Steinach.
Digital course set further for the future of our country
The success story of Baden-Württemberg's broadband funding is also reflected in the fact that the program volume available in 2024 was almost completely exhausted by mid-May. But broadband expansion projects are very dynamic projects. Some of these projects are becoming more expensive due to price increases, for example for materials. Other projects are becoming cheaper, also due to the continuous expansion of the private sector. "I am particularly pleased that we can quickly use budget funds that have become available over the course of the year for urgent and important broadband projects. Of the 13 projects that received approval today, twelve projects would otherwise only have been able to be funded next year with funds from the coming double budget - now we can fund these projects today," explained Minister Thomas Strobl.
Taking into account the approvals on December 3, 2024, Baden-Württemberg has supported a total of 3,629 funding projects since 2016, for which the state has provided around 2.87 billion euros and the federal government a further 3.51 billion euros, a total of around 6.38 billion euros. For the upcoming 2025/2026 double budget, the state's government draft provides a total of 1.1 billion euros for broadband funding.
