Germany to roll out €100bn gigabit internet network

Found on The Register on Friday, 10 March 2017
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The €100bn project will focus on bandwidth, security and response times, minister for transport and digital infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt said.

The network will use "the most advanced technologies, such as fibre and the future 5G mobile communications standard", he said.

If you let politicians plan something that is supposed to work in the real world, you're up for failures. This plan won't be realized until 2025; but maybe the BER Airport might be finished unti. then.