{
  "title": "Germany telecommunications audit: sources",
  "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "G01",
      "title": "Jahresbericht Telekommunikation 2025",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Bundesnetzagentur",
      "url": "https://data.bundesnetzagentur.de/Bundesnetzagentur/SharedDocs/Mediathek/Jahresberichte/JB2025TK.pdf",
      "publicationDate": "2026-06-05",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Printed pp. 5–12, 17–21, 25–27; p.19 fibre stages table",
      "period": "Calendar 2022–2025",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "The 2025 investment observation is provisional. Homes-passed definition clarified in 2025; implementation incomplete and some double counting possible. Fixed traffic includes stationary wireless from 2024 and closed-network IPTV from 2025; mobile excludes stationary wireless from end-2024. Historical observations use this report vintage.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G02",
      "title": "Annual Report Telecommunications 2025: fibre-optic rollout progressing",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Bundesnetzagentur",
      "url": "https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2026/20260605_TK_JB.html",
      "publicationDate": "2026-06-05",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Fibre connections, investment and data use sections",
      "period": "Calendar 2025",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "English release announcing the 2025 annual report. The full report governs definitions.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G03",
      "title": "Bundesnetzagentur identifies first effective competition in the broadband mass market in four cities",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Bundesnetzagentur",
      "url": "https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2026/20260225_BreitbandEckpunkte.html",
      "publicationDate": "2026-02-25",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Provisional findings, four cities and Segeberg paragraphs",
      "period": "February 2026 provisional assessment",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Provisional February 2026 market assessment; not evidence of a final September 2026 legal determination.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G04",
      "title": "Net Neutrality in Germany Annual Report 2025/2026",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Bundesnetzagentur",
      "url": "https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/EN/Areas/Telecommunications/NetNeutrality/_DL/NetNeutralityInGermanyAnnualReport2025_2026.html",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Paragraphs14–15,41–50,64–66; printed pp.8,16–18,21–22",
      "period": "May 2025–April 2026",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "unknown",
      "notes": "Courtesy English translation. Reporting period May 2025–April 2026; speed measurements October 2024–September 2025. Voluntary tests are not a probability sample.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G05",
      "title": "Annual Report 2025: Germany operating segment",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Deutsche Telekom",
      "url": "https://report.telekom.com/annual-report-2025/management-report/development-of-business-in-the-operating-segments/germany.html",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Key financial data; Customer development tables, columns 2025/2024/2023",
      "period": "Calendar 2023–2025",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "unknown",
      "notes": "Germany operating segment, not worldwide group. Adjusted EBITDAaL is company-defined. The broad FTTx customer metric must not be treated as FTTH/B.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G06",
      "title": "FY26 Preliminary Results",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Vodafone Group Plc",
      "url": "https://www.vodafone.com/~/media/Files/V/vodafone/corp/results-and-presentations/vodafone-fy26-preliminary-results.pdf",
      "publicationDate": "2026-05-12",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Printed p.9 Germany: financial table, Growth and Customers",
      "period": "FY 2025 andFY 2026 ending31 March",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Fiscal year ends 31 March. Organic and adjusted measures are company-defined non-GAAP measures.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G07",
      "title": "Q1 FY27 Trading Update",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Vodafone Group Plc",
      "url": "https://www.vodafone.com/~/media/Files/V/vodafone/corp/results-and-presentations/vodafone-fy27-q1-trading-update.pdf",
      "publicationDate": "2026-07-27",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Printed p.5 Germany: financial table, Customers, Operational actions",
      "period": "April–June 2026",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Quarter ended 30 June 2026. Company explanations are attributed; wholesale roaming customers are distinct from the operator’s retail subscribers.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G08",
      "title": "Consumer price index for Germany: twelve divisions",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)",
      "url": "https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Consumer-Price-Index/Tables/Consumer-prices-12-divisions.html",
      "publicationDate": "2026-09-10",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Annual average; total/divisions1–4 and5–8;2020=100",
      "period": "Calendar 2022–2025",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Publication date is the table update date. Communication CPI is a broader basket than the selected broadband tariff and is not a household-income measure.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G09",
      "title": "Internet users and online shoppers 2025 by age and sex",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)",
      "url": "https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Income-Consumption-Living-Conditions/Use-Information-Technologies/Tables/use-internet-sex-age-mz-ikt.html",
      "publicationDate": "2025-11-27",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Total table and age rows; Internet users together / including past three months",
      "period": "2025",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Publication date is the table update date. ICT household survey/microcensus component; persons aged 16–74, excluding ages 75 and above.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G10",
      "title": "DSL tariffs: O2 Home M100 and router FAQ",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Telefónica Germany/O2",
      "url": "https://www.o2online.de/internet-festnetz/dsl-tarife/",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Home M100 tariff card; router-choice and installation FAQ",
      "period": "Offer access18 September 2026",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "unknown",
      "notes": "Offer snapshot 18 September 2026; address eligibility unverified. First 12 months €24.99, then €39.99; connection €9.99. No mobile-bundle rebate assumed. Own compatible router assumed; hardware and unverified address-specific work excluded.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G11",
      "title": "Produktinformationsblatt O2 Home M100/150",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Telefónica Germany/O2",
      "url": "https://www.o2online.de/assets/blobs/pdfs/o2-home-m-100-download/",
      "publicationDate": "2026-06",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "p.2 Entgelt für das Komplettprodukt(Listenpreis) inkl.MwSt.; Vertragslaufzeiten",
      "period": "June 2026 sheet",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "month",
      "notes": "Month-only publication date. VAT-inclusive €39.99 list price excludes hardware; minimum term 24 months. Source title identifies Home M while introductory prose says Home L; the inconsistency is retained.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G12",
      "title": "Internet tariffs: average price and cashback FAQ",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "Telekom Deutschland",
      "url": "https://www.telekom.de/shop/tarife/internet-tarife",
      "publicationDate": null,
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "Average-price calculation, cashback registration and address availability FAQ",
      "period": "Access18 September 2026",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "unknown",
      "notes": "Qualitative cost and distribution mechanism only. No complete Telekom tariff basket is calculated.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "G13",
      "title": "Digital connectivity in Germany",
      "responsibleOrganisation": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-connectivity-germany",
      "publicationDate": "2026-03-05",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-18",
      "locator": "National strategy and Gigabit Strategy 2022 sections",
      "period": "Policy overview updatedMarch 2026",
      "publicationDatePrecision": "day",
      "notes": "Publication date is the page update date. The 2030 policy ambition is a target, not an observation of availability.",
      "reuseBasis": "Attributed factual extraction and original calculations. Source material retains its own rights; no general open licence is asserted."
    }
  ]
}