As the storm-affected state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced on its official website, up to 35 satellite dishes bring Internet via the satellites of the federally funded provider Starlink to the many people in the disaster areas in the north of the state.
Internet via satellite in disaster areas
The responsible supervisory and service directorate (ADD) of Rhineland-Palatinate announced this decision on July 20th. The first twelve satellite dishes have therefore already been installed and put into operation. Residents and helpers in the affected areas can dial into the satellite Internet via WLAN.
The satellite dishes from Starlink are already in the following twelve locations in Rhineland-Palatinate:
- Liers
- Dernau
- Pützfeld
- Ahrbrück
- Kreuzberg
- Rech Nord
- Marienthal
- Heimersheim
- Heppingen
- Rech Süd
- Brück
The number of satellite dishes is to increase to a total of 35 in the further course of the project.
“Due to the failure of numerous cell phone masts, there are regions affected by the storm still no or only limited mobile phone reception in many places, ”said Alexander Schweitzer from the SPD.
mobile phone providers cooperate
In addition, Alexander Schweitzer, the minister responsible for digitization, announced that the three major mobile communications providers Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland will cooperate on issues relating to emergency power supply for radio masts and location identification for new base stations.
“Rebuilding the on-site supply is a big task for companies. I would like to thank the companies that they are working flat out on it, ”concluded the minister.