Overview

• Breko’s mid-2025 analysis shows fiber reached 52.8% of German streets and buildings, beating the former government’s end-2025 availability goal while forecasting 82–92% coverage by 2030
• Only 27.3% of premises are physically connected to fiber lines and around 6.6 million households have activated subscriptions, highlighting a widening adoption gap
• Availability varies sharply by region, with Schleswig-Holstein (92.7%) and Hamburg (90.8%) leading, Saarland at 23.8% and Berlin climbing from 19% to 42.7% this year
• Competitors to Deutsche Telekom account for roughly €10 billion of the €15.3 billion invested in fiber expansion and deliver most new connections
• Industry and government discussions are focusing on targeted subsidies, streamlined planning reforms and clearer building-level access rules to tackle the expensive final “last-meter” links