Otterstadt is fighting for fast internet: fiber optic expansion endangered!

Otterstadt is fighting for fast internet: fiber optic expansion endangered!

In Otterstadt, the big breakthrough in the fiber optic expansion is missing! Stadtwerke Speyer report a contract rate of less than 40 percent and the project is in the term.

The long -awaited improvement in internet connections in the small community of Otterstadt is a real disaster. Despite the temptation of a free house connection, which would cost 1499 euros, just under 220 households discussed the offer of Stadtwerke Speyer (SWS). Almost two months after the start of the marketing campaign, on September 9th, the target of 50 percent contract conclusions in the first expansion zone "Otterstadt Ost" remains unmatched.

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SWS spokeswoman Sonja Daum expresses the frustrating knowledge that the desired quota was not only ambitious, but was simply unreachable. With less than 40 percent, the mood in the basement is. But the fiber optic project manager Georg Weyrich remains optimistic: "We don't give up Otterstadt! We have to find ways to realize the fast internet in this community," he announces. The SWS see the need for expansion as essential in order to meet the constantly growing digital requirements. This is the only way to easily work home office, video conferences and streaming content in the future.

The talks between the municipal utilities and the mayor Theo Böhm (CDU) and deputy Harald Endres (Greens) run. The location is serious, because outside the first expansion zone, the interest in fiber optic expansion is more than a mau. At the moment it remains uncertain how things will happen - a decision has to be made quickly so that the digital future of Otterstadt does not run in the sand!