After almost two years: the radio hole authority issues the first funding decision
It took almost two years for the mobile communications infrastructure company (MIG) to issue the first funding notice since it was founded. The aim of the authority is to plug dead spots. However, due to a lack of willingness to cooperate, the MIG has already received criticism from the Federal Audit Office.
The mobile infrastructure company (MIG) is intended to plug dead spots and close gaps in network coverage. With this goal in mind, the authority was founded in January 2021 by Andreas Scheuer, the then Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
Now, about two years later, the first results are visible. Because the authority recently issued the first funding notice. That shared the MIG in one official message With. In Berlin, the company gave the go-ahead for the construction of the first mobile phone mast under its direction.
The first mobile phone mast should be up by the end of 2023
As MIG announced, Deutsche Funkturm GmbH was awarded the funding. The Telekom subsidiary is now to set up a radio mast in a hiking area in Lambach, Bavaria. However, MIG did not disclose any financial details.
The mast should be up by the end of 2023. The dead zone in the district of Cham should then have disappeared. Daniela Kluckert, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, said:
The mobile infrastructure company, which analyzes potential on site, supports the search for suitable land and promotes the construction of mobile phone masts, ensures that the funding is effective and does not crowd out the market
Funkloch authority under criticism
Meanwhile, Ernst-Ferdinand Wilmsmann, Managing Director of MIG, spoke of a “milestone for nationwide mobile phone coverage in Germany”. The start after the establishment of the authority was anything but smooth.
Because like that mirror reported, the MIG initially found no personnel. Due to a lack of willingness to cooperate, the radio hole authority has also already received criticism from the Federal Audit Office. Now, however, things seem to be progressing. As the MIG informed the mirror, the authority is currently examining two other applications for the funding fund.
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