Gigabit land register: data on public properties to boost expansion

If network installers can use public land, they do not have to laboriously negotiate with individual private owners. This is why property information in the gigabit land register will help with the planning of fiber optic routes and mobile network sites in the future. The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, BMDV) and the Federal Network Agency are implementing a pilot project to display public properties in the gigabit land register. The aim is to create a nationwide directory of public properties.

The project is part of the federal government's gigabit strategy, the BMDV announced on Tuesday. The information is intended to accelerate the expansion of mobile communications and fiber optics. The aim is to identify public properties and make data on the specific owner as well as the geographical location and spatial extent directly available to telecommunications companies carrying out the expansion. At present, this information has to be retrieved at great expense from the respective surveying authorities or land registries – sometimes for a fee.

Pilot project underway in NRW

The parties involved have set up a "Real Estate Atlas Project Group" for the initiative. According to the BMDV, the federal government is currently coordinating with representatives of individual state surveying authorities from Bavaria, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Lower Saxony, and Rhineland-Palatinate on a procedure for identifying public properties. Also, on data processing in the gigabit land register. A pilot project with NRW is currently underway. The state surveying administration there already has a "public property" information service for internal purposes, including data from institutions, foundations, universities and state associations. This is why it will start in NRW.

The test run will use geoinformation from the Official Real Estate Cadastre Information System (Alkis), reports the digital department. This register is known from the recalculation of property tax. This is intended to reduce the burden on the respective owners at federal, state and municipal level, as they would otherwise have to provide their data individually in accordance with Section 83 TKG. The broadband atlas is an important part of the Gigabit Grundbuch. For this, the Federal Network Agency surveys the fixed network coverage of more than 330 telecommunications network operators every six months. The results are presented in maps, graphs and tables that can be viewed down to the individual street. According to critics, there is already too much sensitive data in the infrastructure atlas.

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