Consumer uptake for triple play services “accelerated strongly” in Germany this year

November 23, 2007 – The German market for triple-play services accelerated “strongly” in 2007, according to a new report from market research firm Research and Markets, with over ten providers offering such services.

The report goes on to say that growth in 2008 is “expected to be particularly strong”, adding that in addition to increased investment in cable network upgrades, the DSL network of Deutsche Telekom will provide 50 Mbps services to most of the country by the end of the decade.  The operator’s fibre/VDSL network will have gone live in 22 cities in Germany by the end of this year, and the company is investing €3bn in an all-IP “Next Generation Network” with the intention of building a key strategic platform.

Germany’s broadband subscriber base was found to have developed well in 2007, spurred by Deutsche Telekom increasing the coverage of its 50Mbps service and by the “successful business models of municipally owned and private network operators such as QSC, HanseNet and NetCologne”.  Furthermore, the country’s broadband sector is expected to provide “considerable opportunities” in coming years, partly through the size of the market and partly through investments in network upgrades which will encourage a range of IP-delivered services.