Good practices

Based on the Austrian's aim for broadband development, a basic broadband should be available for the entire households with a minimum speed of 25 Mbps. This should be achieved based on the... more

In an area of poor internet access where no incumbent operator planned to serve small communities with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the mayors decided to take matters into their own... more

In Bassenge, municipal buildings are scattered in various locations throughout the county. It is therefore not easy to establish good communication between the different services. In order to... more

The project seeks close cooperation with a broad variety of public and semi-public partners and private organisations. In the Kortrijk region the broadband connections are privately owned. The lack... more

The project aims to support high quality broadband connectivity in Bulgaria. Within the available budget, the scope of the project allows to build Next Generation Network (NGN) connectivity to public... more

The programme for internet and broadband development in areas of special state concern, hilly and mountainous areas and islands is aiming to provide the broadband connection with the predefined... more

This good practice involves the creation of a regional strategy for the development of metropolitan and regional high-speed networks based on an open access philosophy in rural areas. It is a pilot... more

Waoo! started in 2010 as a product and marketing house on the fibre-access networks of 15 of Denmark’s largest energy companies. With reaching super fast fibre-based internet in more than a third... more

Vejen Municipality has had a target of fibre to all in the municipality before the end of 2012. The municipal institutions are connected through a fibre ring that has brought significant gains, and... more

The Solrød municipality has internally connected their local institution with fibre connections. Furthermore based on the offer from the local power company SEAS-NVE to combine the rollout of fibre,... more

The main aim of the project EstWIN is to help eliminating the digital divide between cities and rural areas, increasing social cohesion and contributing to economic growth. EstWIN is one of the... more

The Suupohja FTTH (Fibre-to-the-home) - network in Western Finland started in 2005 with the vision of building municipality owned fibre backbone to the village telephone centres and using existing... more

Gigalis is a new very high speed optical fibre IP (Internet Protocol) / MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) network which has been installed in the Pays de la Loire region. The Regional Council of... more

In may 2008, Niverlan (joint association of local authorities) was granted a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) licence by the French telecom regulator. Niverlan chose the 802.... more

Niverlan (joint association of local authorities) chose to replace a former scheduled electromagnetic wave link by fibre optic cables using the electric high tension network between two towns. This... more

Despite the excellent regional broadband deployment with terrestrial technologies in the first phase, 0,4% of the population (a couple of thousands households) were not served by basic broadband. To... more

The Auvergne region decided to deploy broadband infrastructure as a means to strengthen the competitiveness and the attractiveness of its territory. The programme is based on a mix of technologies in... more

As a pilot project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the use of possible synergies when deploying a broadband infrastructure has been ensured in Flecken Ottersberg, a... more

Initiator: Federal Ministry of Traffic and Digital Infrastructures Purpose of this Organisation -Supporting the implementation of the Broadband Strategy of the German Federal Government -... more

Herrieden is a municipality in the administrative district of Ansbach in the federal state of Bavaria with 7.552 inhabitants. The municipality is located on a topographically flat area. The... more

Riesbürg is a municipality in the administrative district of Ostalbkreis with 2.500 inhabitants. The municipality consists of two spatially separated parts, a northern part with the districts... more