Bochum hopes to be Germany’s ‘fastest city’ for internet

March 20, 2017

Bochum’s mayor, Thomas Eiskirch, pronounced his city would turn Germany’s initial “Gigabit City” – as a plan is called – by charity households lightning speed internet connections, a Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Sunday.

“We will be a fastest city in Germany,” Eiskirch pronounced forward of his display during a CeBIT general IT expo in Hanover on Monday.

The city’s plan is in partnership with network provider Unitymedia, that delivers internet to 90 percent of a city’s some-more than 190,000 households. The finish idea is for residents to have information send rates of 1000 megabits per second by a initial entertain of 2018. Currently a limit speed in a city is 400 megabits per second.

Bochum skeleton to request for subsidies from a sovereign supervision totalling €6 million to bond 3,000 households and 800 companies in supposed “white spots” – places with particulalry bad internet where internet rates are about 30 megabits per second.

“Gigabit City outlines a miracle in a growth of a city and will have a certain outcome on a notice of Bochum being a place for businesses and an appealing place for life and work,” pronounced Eiskirch in a statement.

Internet speed varies severely opposite a country, with those in a fastest city, Karlsruhe, surfing on normal during twice a rate of those in Erfurt – a misfortune city, according to a news in December.

Article source: https://www.thelocal.de/20170320/bochum-hopes-to-be-germanys-fastest-city-for-internet