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Speed Connect Austria: Fibre to the Grüner Veltliner

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Bringing ultrafast internet to wine-growing Lower Austria

Austria needs to keep pace with other European countries when it comes to bringing ultrafast fibre connectivity to residents. To connect the unconnected residing in hard-to-reach and rural locations, a key project in the country began in June 2023.

Less than a year into the project between Speed Connect Austria and Slovenia’s Kontron, Speed Connect Austria has laid more than 800 km of fibre and connected 2,000 homes in wine-growing rural areas of Lower Austria, providing 10-gigabit connectivity to all service providers operating across the open FTTH network.

 

The Weinviertel region in the northeast of Lower Austria is a landscape characterised by vineyards and fields on gently rolling hills and unspoiled nature. Traditionally dependent on agriculture – and viticulture in particular – the wine-growing region is known for its hospitality, numerous traditional winery farms, ‘Heuriger’ taverns and countless romantic cellar streets.

With ultrafast fibre-optic connectivity, the residents can now also benefit from the new opportunities of a digital society.

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  • What change this brings to the Zellerndorf municipality – an area that has seen an almost 10% population decrease during the last two decades;
  • How internet connectivity and fibre infrastructure make rural communities (such as Zellerndorf) a better place to live and work.

Image © Kellergassen Niederösterreich 2016 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50314165
 

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