Press releases

Berlin, 28 March 2025. Faster approval processes, reduced bureaucracy, and investment-friendly policies are essential for rapidly developing future-proof digital infrastructure in Germany. In an urgent appeal, the telecommunications industry associations ANGA, Bitkom, BREKO, and VATM have called on today’s Digital Ministerial Conference to adopt consistent

Berlin, 10.03.2025. As the coalition negotiations approach, the new federal government must set a clear course for Germany’s future to restore its economic leadership among industrialized nations. The recently presented exploratory paper from CDU/CSU and SPD outlines some promising initial steps. VATM welcomes proposals to

Brussels, February 26, 2025. Less bureaucracy, more efficiency – this principle  underpins the EU Commission’s “Omnibus simplification package”, which will be presented today. With this initiative, the Commission aims to introduce significant simplifications and reduce bureaucratic burden across several European sustainability directives, providing  much needed

Cologne, 12th February 2025. For years, industry and politics have been discussing the usefulness of funding programmes for optical fibre expansion. In the new legislative period, old funding habits must finally be broken and new paths taken to significantly increase the demand for optical fibre

Strategic overbuild of Telekom: BREKO and VATM demand a formal investigation by the Federal Network Agency and effective measures against market power abuse Bonn, 30.01.2025. Telekom continues to exploit its dominant market position by strategically overbuilding the competitors’ fibre networks, causing severe competitive harm. The