Wilhelm.tel
Wilhelm.tel GmbH is a German regional provider of telecommunication services based in Norderstedt. The company is 100% owned by the city of Norderstedt through its municipal services, Stadtwerke Norderstedt. Wilhelm.tel operates its own fiber-optic network, which is laid to the individual households independent on the leasing of lines of Deutsche Telekom AG. The network offers cable television as well as a telephone connection with Internet access with data rates of up to 1 GBit/s downstream or 250 MBit/s upstream (private customer offers). The purchase of the cable television signal is a prerequisite for the use of the telephone and Internet offers. In the city of Norderstedt, currently 95% of households are connected directly to the grid via their own lines. There, 28,000 out of a total of 33,000 households are customers of the company. After starting in 2004, some areas in Hamburg and Henstedt-Ulzburg were expanded. The development of other areas in the Norderstedt area is currently being planned, including a major expansion into Henstedt-Ulzburg, Kaltenkirchen and Rellingen. Throughout, the concept of direct access with fiber optic cables is intended to be implemented right down to the customer's basement ("Fiber To The Basement"). In total, wilhelm.tel had 75,000 customers in