EU sovereignNetwork & Firewall ManagementHeadquarters: DE

M-net: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

M-net is a regional telecommunications provider in Bavaria offering fibre internet, landline telephony, IP television and mobile plans to consumers. Business customers receive dedicated internet, IP telephony, data backup, site networking and failover connections. Consumer tariffs are delivered over fibre or VDSL depending on the address, and the mobile product runs on the O2 Telefónica network. The company also continues its fibre expansion in Munich.

M-net Telekommunikations GmbH has its seat in Munich. Stadtwerke München became its majority shareholder through a share purchase announced in July 2026, and the municipal utilities of Augsburg and the Allgäu hold the remaining stakes. No foreign owner is involved. The privacy notice refers to the information duties under Article 13 GDPR and states that order and customer-portal data is transmitted encrypted. Its own A/B-testing data is stored on a server in Germany, while some third-party analytics and advertising services transfer data to the United States. For the core network and the customer relationship, M-net is therefore anchored in Germany; third-party web tracking deserves separate review.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Network & Firewall Management
Type	Product
Website	m-net.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to M-net

The European alternatives to M-net come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with M-net

M-net is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so M-net scores best on data residency.

M-net is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs M-net together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to M-net?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to M-net include Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Allegro Packets and Arelion. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to M-net?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to M-net include BIRD Internet Routing Daemon and Deciso OPNsense. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is M-net GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

M-net is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes M-net an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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Digital sovereignty in Network & Firewall Management

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