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# Internet (recoverable from tenant)

Help on the Immodio entry item Internet (recoverable from tenant).

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Use this category where the landlord provides internet access for one or more tenants and the costs are borne by the participating tenants on the basis of a **separate contractual agreement**.

#### An important legal note

Since **1 July 2024** the running monthly charges for broadband, cable or internet connections may in principle **no longer be allocated to all tenants through the operating cost statement**. The former ancillary cost privilege has ended. The tenant pays for their internet connection either directly to a provider of their own choice or to the landlord on the basis of their own contract. This generally requires a **separate and transparent agreement on the internet supply**.

#### What can be entered here?

Costs arising from an agreed internet supply for the tenants in particular can be recorded here, for example:

* the running fees of an internet provider,
* a tenant's contractually agreed share of a shared internet connection,
* agreed charges for internet access provided by the landlord,
* contractually agreed rental costs for routers or other access technology,
* other running charges that clearly belong to the agreed internet supply for the tenants.

#### The conditions for passing the costs on

The internet supply and the charge to be paid for it should be agreed clearly. The agreement should show at least:

* which internet service is provided,
* how high the charge is,
* which tenants take part in the supply,
* which contract term and notice period apply,
* whether additional costs arise, for a router for example.

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Where the landlord provides internet or other telecommunications services themselves in connection with the tenancy and charges the tenants for them, they generally have to observe the consumer protection provisions of the German Telecommunications Act. These include requirements on contract information, contract terms, termination, service failures and changing provider.
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#### Assignment

For the assignment select **"Property"** where you have made an agreement on the internet supply with all tenants. Where the agreement exists with only one tenant, the entry should be assigned directly to the **"Unit"** or the **"Tenancy"** concerned.

A blanket allocation to all tenants of a property is not permissible simply because there is a shared internet connection in the building. The Federal Network Agency points out that a shared supply remains possible but requires corresponding individual agreements.

#### When this category should not be used

Do not use this category for:

* the landlord's private or business internet connection,
* internet costs for the office or the property management,
* the landlord's telephone or mobile contracts,
* internet costs of a vacant unit that cannot be effectively passed on to a tenant,
* repairs or the purchase of new routers, cables and other network technology, as far as these costs are not expressly part of a permissible separate service agreement.

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The landlord's own internet costs are recorded in the category **"Internet (not recoverable from tenant)"**.
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#### The distinction from recoverable costs of the building infrastructure

Certain costs of a shared telecommunications infrastructure have to be distinguished from the internet fees themselves. Under Section 2 no. 15 BetrKV, the operating electricity of a communal aerial system or a private broadband distribution system and certain costs of a fibre optic system inside the building, for example, can still be recoverable under narrow conditions. The monthly fee for the internet service itself is, however, not automatically part of this.

For a newly built fibre optic infrastructure inside the building, a fibre optic provision charge can be allocated under the statutory conditions. It is in principle limited to **at most 60 euros per year and 540 euros in total per residential unit**. The tenant also has to be able to choose their telecommunications provider freely.