It occured to me a few weeks ago when a customer asked me a precise question about municipal fiber projects in Germany that I didn't know near enough on the topic. I was aware (of course) of NetCologne and M-Net but while I knew there were other projects, I didn't know much about them.
Thankfully, my good friend and fellow blogger Kai Seim and his colleague Sabine Finke have recently released a short but detailed study on FTTH projects in Germany enttitled, appropriately, Fibre in Germany. It covers 10 different municipal or regional projects, describes the various players, summarises key figures when they are available and then concludes with an overall view of the broadband market and its shift towards FTTH.
This study is available for sale from Seim & Partner for the measly sum of 50 EUR and if you need a professional assessment of the current status of the FTTH market in Germany, it's well worth obtaining. It's a 30 page document, so within an hour's reading you'll know all that there currently is to know about German Fiber
My one frustration about this piece of work is that there is no analysis of DT's positions on the matter. Obviously, I'm not blaming Seim & Partner: I know first hand that DT does not talk about this to anyone, and anything Kai and Sabine would have included in this study would have been speculation. Still, it's crucial to recognise that the projects described in the study are not independant from DT's own strategy, and inevitably DT's ultimate positions will be determined largely by how successful these municipal or regional projects are.
