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Berlin (dpa / bb) - In Berlin, 25 general education schools are to be connected to the broadband network via fiber optics and thus get faster Internet.
The Senate Department for Education announced on Monday that this was planned as part of a “test experiment”.
Deutsche Telekom AG was commissioned with the implementation.
As soon as the temperatures allowed it, civil engineering work to lay fiber optic cables could begin.
"Completion should take place by the end of June 2021."
At the same time, consideration is being given to connecting a further 35 school locations to the broadband network.
According to the information, Berlin's vocational schools already largely have broadband connections.
In the case of the 25 general education schools, the Senate Department for Education bears the investment costs for civil engineering work or for the connection to the server room in the building as well as the monthly costs for the connection.
On request, the education administration did not comment on how high the budget is.
During the “test trial”, experience is to be gathered that could be valuable for connecting all around 700 locations of general education public schools.
On the question of how long this would take, the administration said: "It is initially a proof of concept, so that final, comprehensive timelines cannot yet be reliably represented."
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Deutsche Telekom announced on Friday that it wanted to enable one million private households, companies and schools in Berlin to have high-speed internet via fiber-optic cables by 2027.
600,000 connections are to be completed by the end of 2025.
In the past few years, the group relied primarily on fiber optics only up to the distribution box, from where the Internet was forwarded via conventional telephone cables (VDSL).
In the future, fiber optic transmission should go to the home or school, which would make the transmission much faster and more stable - the maximum download speed increases from up to 250 Mbit per second to 1000 Mbit per second, one gigabit.
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