Overview
- Official data indicate 13.3% of Germany’s area remains insufficiently served by mobile networks and about 1.9% has no mobile broadband at all.
- The Bundesnetzagentur reports operators have no plans to close 85% of known coverage gaps within the next 12 months, affecting roughly 5,804 square kilometers.
- An analysis by Verivox finds the annual pace of closing network gaps has nearly halved compared with the previous year.
- Rural and mountainous regions are most affected, with examples including parts of Berchtesgadener Land and Hesse, while cities such as Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen report few remaining gaps.
- Thuringia cites broad access—97% of area with at least one 4G provider, 93% with 5G, and 98.7% of private households on 5G—yet acknowledges terrain-driven blackspots and ongoing federally supported projects.