This opinion piece analyzes the current state of fiber deployment in Germany and progress toward 2025 targets. Germany aims to cover 50% of households with FTTH/B by the end of 2025, but with only 36. construction work and construction errors: When laying fiber optic cables, construction work can lead to disruptions. weather-related disruptions: Extreme. Well over half of companies in Germany that are active in the industrial and industry-related services sector feel that they are affected by inadequate broadband coverage. In September 2023, the fibre rollout rate (homes passed) in the EU states and the United Kingdom was 64. Operators are working at full. As far back as 1981, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's coalition government had recognised the future potential of fibre-optic technology, unveiling a 30-year plan to expand it across the entire country: “As soon as the technical prerequisites are met, the Deutsche Bundespost will quickly set. The Internet Outages Map is an at-a-glance visualization of global Internet health over the last 24 hours, tracking Internet outages across ISPs, top application providers, public clouds, and edge service networks.