(Telecompaper) The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided that Deutsche Telekom's EUR 1 billion broadband expansion plans are helpful to improving the broadband supply in Germany and approved the proposed VDSL vectoring roll-out. The telecoms provider plans to connect 6 million households in German cities to VDSL at speeds of up to 100 Mbps by 2018. However, the proposal has drawn sharp criticism from alternative operators, who claim it re-instates DT's monopoly by limiting their access to the copper network.