{"id":521995,"date":"2025-10-23T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521995\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:58:13","slug":"vodafone-germany-drops-cost-of-fibre-broadband-to-encourage-switch-from-dsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521995\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Germany drops cost of fibre broadband to encourage switch from DSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

There will be a new set of tariffs from 26 October \u2013 Germany is Vodafone\u2019s biggest market but in recent years has been a drag on the group\u2019s performance<\/p>\n

Vodafone is launching new offers to encourage the switch from DSL to faster broadband, which the country\u2019s Digital Ministry is prioritising. Recently, Vodafone dropped the cost of its Giga CableMax offer to under \u20ac50 a month, and from 26 October will reduce tariffs for fibre broadband, or increase the capacity for the same price. <\/p>\n

More than 10 million households in Germany can book new fibere offers from Vodafone. New download bandwidths are 150Mbps (instead of 100 previously), 300Mbps (instead of 250 previously) and 600Mbps (instead of 500 previously) and up to three times higher upload speeds \u2013 see table below.<\/p>\n

Vodafone is lowering the prices for the fastest gigabit tariff, GigaZuhause 1000 fiber optics, by \u20ac10 and recommends this deal for applications like home office, content streaming and gaming. Hoewever, customers can downgrade the link if they find they don\u2019t need the high transmission rates after six months without penalty<\/p>\n

\"GigaHomeFrom the 26th There are new fiber optic offerings from Vodafone in October. Faster download bandwidths and up to three times higher upload speeds make the new portfolio much more powerful compared to the previous tariffs. \u00a9 Vodafone<\/p>\n

In recent years Germany, which is Vodafone Group\u2019s largest market, has been a drag on financial performance. It will be interesting to see is this move boosts take up of its fixed internet after churn caused by a change in regulation which meant tenant in multi-tenant dwellings have the right to chose their broadband provider rather than having to accept the provider chosen by the landlord. <\/p>\n

Through its \u20ac18.4 billion acquisition of Liberty Global\u2019s cable operations in Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania in 2019, Vodafone was the incumbent in many multi-tenant dwellings buildings. It has also scored badly in customer satisfaction in the country according to the regulator, BNetzA.<\/p>\n

In May, when Vodafone published its earnings for the financial year 2024\u20132025, <\/a>it insisted it had hit the nadir regarding the German market and now the only way is up. However, it noted in its Q1 earnings report for the current year that, \u201cSlowing growth in Germany\u2019s fixed broadband market may affect overall performance\u201d. <\/p>\n

In fact, Germany declined by 3.2% in Q1 (Q4: -6.0%), \u201cdue to the impact of the TV law change\u201d. Excluding this, service revenue was broadly stable at -0.3% in Q1 (Q4: -2.7%), as mobile market competitive intensity was offset by Wholesale growth.<\/p>\n

Its EBITDA growth of 2.2% in Q1 was driven by strength in the UK, Africa and Turkey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be a new set of tariffs from 26 October \u2013 Germany is Vodafone\u2019s biggest market but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[169680,3082,169681,53,16,15,169682],"class_list":{"0":"post-521995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-full-fibre-broadband","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-liberty-global","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-vodafone-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115423131626842949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}