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Overview of funded broadband area projects

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This dataset lists broadband area expansion projects in North Rhine-Westphalia that received final federal approval under the Federal Broadband Development Programme, launched in 2015. While fibre-optic rollout is primarily a market-driven task, the federal and state governments jointly fund expansion in areas where commercial deployment is not economically viable. North Rhine-Westphalia co-finances these projects alongside federal funding. The dataset covers area-wide projects specifically; separate datasets exist for funding related to commercial/industrial areas and for schools and hospitals. It is published by the state's Ministry for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy.The creation of fibre-optic networks is fundamentally the task of the market. In areas where economic development is not possible for network operators, the federal and state governments are jointly promoting expansion. To this end, the Federal Government launched the Federal Broadband Development Programme in 2015. The country participates in the financing (co-financing). The dataset contains an overview of the funding projects co-financed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which were finally approved by the federal government. The overview shows the area projects. There are further datasets for commercial areas as well as for schools and hospitals.