Telekom Deutschland: to add 2 million households to FTTH per year

Telekom DE build-out 2018 and future plans

• added 60k km fiber (total 500k)
• added 23k street cabinets (total 177.6k), to complete FTTC YE 2020
• total 100 business parks (45k businesses) with FTTO (100 Mb/s - 100 Gb/s)
• added 1,300 base stations (total 27k; coverage 99.8% pops and 97.6% area; LTE coverage 97.8% pops and 97% area; single-RAN)
• total FTTS penetration 80% of sites
• 5G test sites in Berlin (Schöneberg & Mitte; 2 Gb/s, 3 ms latency) and Hamburg port
• campus networks (LTE-based, with edge computing, AI) with Osram in Schwabmünchen and with RWTH Aachen University (planned)
• 26m HH have at least 100 Mb/s
• plans large-scale FTTH (2m HH/yr) and 5G
• target 3k business parks with FTTO by YE 2022

"Deutsche Telekom will have largely completed its FTTC (fiber to the curb) upgrade by the end of 2020. This will be followed by the large-scale buildout of FTTH (fiber to the home), in which Deutsche Telekom will equip up to two million households with FTTH every year."