Press releases

Berlin, 13. August 2025. For the first time, a German federal government has made digitalisation a top priority by creating an independent Ministry for Digital Affairs. It’s a move the industry has been demanding for years. In recent weeks, Dr Karsten Wildberger, the first Federal

Cologne, 4 August 2025. Rolling out fibre optics in Germany’s multi-family homes is challenging and progress is slow: only 2.9 million of the approximately 30.5 million households in two-family and multi-family homes have fibre optic connections. In large buildings with seven or more residential units,

Brussels, 10 July 2025. Numerous European telecommunications providers and industry associations issued today urgent appeals to the European Commission, warning of severe consequences from the proposed reforms under the Digital Networks Act (DNA) and the revision of the Market Recommendation (RRM). The VATM, a co-signatory

In response to yesterday’s report by the Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and State Modernisation on the status of the fibre optic rollout, the managing directors of the industry associations ANGA and VATM, Philipp Müller (ANGA) and Dr Fredric Ufer (VATM), issued the following joint statement:

Berlin, 26 June 2025. Digitalisation must be fast. The new German administration swiftly discussed and approved the TKG amendment today, one of the key infrastructure expansion acceleration projects in the Bundestag. The VATM expressly welcomes the fact that the so-called ‘overriding public interest’ in the