DGAP-News: Tele Columbus starts high-speed internet for Delitzsch

PRESS RELEASE
 

Fibre for buildings of the communal housing association
 

Tele Columbus starts high-speed internet for Delitzsch
 

- Internet of up to 400 Mbit/s in more than 2,100 households of the WGD

- Official start of the first part of the network today

- PŸUR offers attractive promotions

Berlin, 15 July 2019. The communal housing association Delitzsch WGD and Tele Columbus AG, one of Germany's leading fibre network operators, today activated the high speed connections for the first households of WGD. In 800 flats of the first network part broadband internet speeds of up to 400 Mbit/s are now available, the remaining households of the more than 2,100 flats WGD owns in total will follow until September.
 

Together with the network inception, PŸUR offers all tenants to test the fibre-based network with its "Pure Welcome Surf 200" promotion which includes high-speed internet access of up to 200 Mbit/s free of charge for three months, also installation and shipping is included.
 

In order to realise the new high-speed network, fibre lines have been deployed over the past 12 months on a total of eight kilometres thereby ensuring also future bandwidth capacity increases. "A housing association is long-term oriented and has to plan infrastructure in such a way that the demand of its tenants will be met for many years ahead", explains Rüdiger Schmidt, Chief Sales Officer Housing Industry & Infrastructure of Tele Columbus AG. "Tele Columbus as an expert for fibre networks therefore constructs networks bearing in mind future bandwidth demand: The flexibility posed by Delitzsch's fibre network will cover capacity increases for a long time ahead without having to deploy heavy construction work."
 

André Planer, Managing Director of Delitzsch WGD, welcomed the on-time finalisation of the first construction phase and emphasized the importance of a high-speed broadband internet connection for the location factor of the association. "We are especially happy that our initiative for a fibre network not only ensures access for our own properties but also allows for an expansion to other properties including commercial real estate in Delitzsch. For businesses PŸUR offers dedicated B2B products and tariffs with up to 100 GBit/s.

 

About us

Tele Columbus AG is one of Germany's leading fibre network operators which reaches more than 3 million homes. Via its brand PŸUR, the Company, offers high-speed internet including telephony and more than 250 TV channels. All of this via a digital entertainment platform that combines linear TV with video on demand entertainment. To its housing association partners the Tele Columbus Group offers tailored models of cooperation and state-of-the-art services such as telemetric and tenant portals. As a full-service partner for municipalities and regional utilities, the Company is actively supporting the fibre-based infrastructure and broadband internet expansion in Germany. For its business customers the Group offers carrier services and corporate solutions on its proprietary fibre network. Besides its headquarter in Berlin, the Company has locations in Hamburg, Leipzig, Ratingen and Unterföhring/Munich. Since January 2015, Tele Columbus AG is listed on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock exchange.
 

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