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Surfing on the Internet is as cheap as never in Germany before. On average the Internet rates have shrunk by 47 per cent since the year 2000, so almost have halved. This goes information economy, telecommunications and new media from calculations of the federal association. The prices have therefore dropped by five per cent alone within the last twelve months. Many users could be pleased about price recessions even by up to seven per cent.
The end of the price spiral is not reached yet. "The providers have just sounded the bell for the next price lap. BITKOM vice-president Jörg Menno Harms explains the intensive competition, new rate models as well as technological innovations drop the prices ". Furthermore the trend goes in the direction of the flat-rate tariffs. "The customers get more performance so Harms for less money with flat rate ". This is not included sufficiently in the price statistics yet at all. The BITKOM calculations are based on the development of the consumer indices for the Internet use of the statistical Federal Office.
Industry leader Deutsche Telekom (T Home) has lowered the prices for DSL ports by up to ten euros only at the beginning of the month.
The alternative DSL provider Arcor also has gone. "Germany is ", one of the hardest disputed DSL markets of Europe Arcor talker Thomas Rompczyk notices press text opposite. "Few large providers fight with hard bandages around market shares. " Although Rompczyk expects further price recessions. However, these would turn out no more as high as within the last years. Arcor wants to increase the value of his packages with content around the downward pressure of prices from the way to go, in future. IPTV could over the medium term stimulate the demand approximately, so Rompczyk.
The consumers also profit from an increasing acceleration of the networks besides the reasonable prices. Internet accesses are around up to one thousand times fast than analogous ports via DSL or flex already now. Almost 40 per cent of the German households have a broadband access according to the BITKOM meanwhile. It shall be every second by the middle of 2008. Three times, while with HSDPA the mobile telephony networks are accelerated, the planned VDSL network is DSL ports as fast as classic. The flex mobile phone network operators also improve her networks further in the area and for higher speeds.
