Year Wired Of which: Wireless Total
Public switched network (by modem, dial-up) + ISDN xDSL cable-tv optical
2003 606,054 391,398 114,813 77,189 .. 60,538 666,592
2004 706,755 320,494 235,969 135,803 .. 88,122 794,877
2005 844,749 241,611 372,523 212,145 ..
155,988a
 1,000,737
2006 1,077,851 85,878 597,331 374,647 .. 51,990 1,129,841
2007 1,397,662 62,985 739,028 563,593 .. 77,640 1,475,302
2008 1,632,791 24,742 806,569 718,060 .. 107,288 1,740,079
2009 1,766,645 22,403 800,013 782,430 .. 103,898 1,870,543
2010 1,934,425 15,137 789,657 893,177 .. 100,127 2,034,552
2011 2,077,577 13,527 801,165 970,499 .. 100,106 2,177,683
2012 2,176,962 12,897 774,458 1,055,078 .. 101,265 2,278,227
2013 2,303,733 12,452 765,846 1,144,496 .. 103,874 2,407,607
2014 2,439,236 8,754 780,905 1,229,170 .. 114,120 2,553,356
2015 2,564,835 4,953 788,253 1,300,059 .. 117,324 2,682,159
2016 2,684,503 .. 774,450 1,364,536 529,781 126,022 2,810,525
2017 2,803,600 .. 747,736 1,414,272 626,979 130,544 2,934,144
2018 2,974,357 .. 735,691 1,482,138 740,764 134,309 3,108,666
2019 3,063,654 .. 670,273 1,506,041 870,624 130,257 3,193,911
2020 3,158,024 .. 594,194 1,533,749 1,013,301 131,548 3,289,572
2021 3,246,098 .. 524,597 1,556,483 1,159,318 136,038 3,382,136
2022 3,347,065 .. 453,087 1,522,205 1,364,277
168,868b
 3,515,933
2023 3,359,182 .. 332,910 1,490,709 1,527,304 202,046 3,561,228
2024 3,410,132 .. 294,318 1,473,806 1,633,375 222,508 3,632,640

Footnotes

*From 2022, Wireless fixed broadband Internet subscriptions also include Mobile Internet subscriptions limited to Location.
aExcluding mobil internet from the 2006.
bIncluding location delimited wireless mobil internet subscriptions from the 2022.

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Break in series (limited comparability).
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