OREANDA-NEWS. Top speeds of 150 megabits per second in mobile communications.
Turbo fixed line through fiber optic expansion and vectoring: Over 24 million households will be connected to the fiber optic network by 2016
Speeds of up to 100 megabits per second will become possible on a large scale thanks to vectoring
Pilot project: Hamburg will become “HotSpot city”
Deutsche Telekom will be working on the network expansion at more than 52,000 construction sites across Germany in 2014

“We’re already building the network of the future for Germany today! We’re investing in Germany, for Germany! And not just in the urban centers,” says Renй Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom. The Group is expanding its modern networks based on multiple technologies and setting new benchmarks in high-performance infrastructure:

- LTE makes new top speeds of up to 150 megabits per second possible in mobile communications.
- The expansion of the fiber optic infrastructure will connect around 24 million households to the high-speed network with up to 100 megabits per second by the end of 2016.
- Deutsche Telekom is creating the first “WiFi city” in Hamburg.

“We’re strengthening our position as the leading network provider for our customers. No other telecommunications company invests as much as Deutsche Telekom,” says Obermann. The Group will invest more than 23 billion euros in Germany between 2010 and 2015.

In addition, the network expansion has positive occupational effects and secures jobs for the coming years. It will allow the Group to hire almost 6,000 of its own trainees by 2015. Deutsche Telekom is also reducing its outsourcing in favor of internal jobs and is promoting partial retirement over early retirement. In doing so the Group is keeping senior employees’ experience in the company as part of demography-oriented personnel development.

In its expansion of the network infrastructure the Group is implementing the best possible combination of technologies, including mobile communications, fixed line, Internet Protocol (IP) based infrastructure and wireless connections (WiFi).