📋 Tender Overview
The state has handed over funding notices totaling 36.37 million euros for municipal broadband expansion. The projects will create 6,985 new broadband connections. The digital infrastructure is the key to a successful future. With ours, we are sending a strong signal that we are continuing to advance it in Baden-Wurttemberg - 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 government decides as we proposed - 1.1 billion euros in the next two years, said the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior and Digitalization at the handover in the Ministry of Digitalization in Stuttgart.
At the appointment on December 3, 2024, Digitalization Minister Thomas Strobl handed over 13 grant notices for ten grant recipients from ten districts totaling 36.37 million euros. In total, the funding applications will create 6,985 new broadband connections. This includes 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 was received by the city of Bad Wurzach in the amount of 12.43 million euros for the FTTB (Fibre to the Building) expansion of the undersupplied areas in Bad Wurzach. Total expenditure amounts to around 31.07 million euros, of which the federal government is funding 50 percent, amounting to around 15.53 million euros. The broadband supply association in the Ravensburg district is contributing ten percent of its own. The city of Calw is receiving 2.38 million euros. This will enable undersupplied areas to be opened up using FTTB technology.
The city of Konstanz is expanding undersupplied buildings in the municipality. The city is receiving a total of 4.6 million euros in funding for this. The city of Bad Wurzach is receiving 3.68 million euros for the FTTB expansion of the undersupplied 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-Wurttembergs broadband funding is also demonstrated by the fact that the program volume available in 2024 was almost completely exhausted by mid-May. But projects in 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-Wurttemberg 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 states government draft provides a total of 1.1 billion euros for broadband funding.
