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Writing this from Germany: The question at hand was not for wireless internet access, but for internet access. That includes all forms of carriers. Not so long
by zmix 10y ago
Writing this from Germany:
The question at hand was not for wireless internet access, but for internet access. That includes all forms of carriers. Not so long ago, I found wireless internet access to be very steep in price, too, but since it has changed a little. Wired access is usually carried over either ADSL or VDSL or cable here. In some areas (metroploitan, mostly) the introduction of fibre has begun.
Prices range from 20€-50€, with speeds ranging from 16mb/s to 100mb/s in the downstream and 1mb/s to 40mb/s in the upstream. Most of these offers include unlimited landline calls within Germany (flatrate), some of them add extras, like WiFi on the go or IPTV.
I don't find this to be expensive. Especially, since there is seldomly horror-stories like the ones coming from Verizone customers, etc.
On the mobile-side, pure data-flatrates can be had for below 10€, including 3GB of bandwidth. All-Net-Flats, which include a flatrate for national calls into all networks, 4GB data (>40mb/s), flat SMS, are to be had at a starting 30€/month, when contracted for 2 years.
And, in the end, let's be honest: Most people do not need more than 5mb/s. At least not per person. Small multi-user households may be fine with 16mb/s, people reading HackerNews, however, obviously need much, much more ;-)
- poushkar 10y agoWell, we probably live in different Germanies :) I am writing this comment from an S-Bahn train going through the Berlin center right now, on iPhone SE, no cover cases, no jailbrake. My mobile operator is contract Congstar and at the moment connection status is switching back and forth from "no service" to Edge to 3G. 3g is present only about 60% of the time. I had similar quality problems with T-Mobile as well before I quit it. Their LTE was present only in the city center, but not inside buildings. And I tested it with few different phones. Everyone I know complains about mobile internet quality. My friends back in Ukraine have been making video calls on their phones for at least 3 years now and me, living in the center of Europe, cannot load a HN page sometimes.
- zmix 10y agoNo we don't. But, as it seems, we talk about two completely different topics ;) The question at hand (see the title) was not about mobile-internet-quality, but about high prices for internet in Germany in general. That is two different topics. Just now I read on Golem.de, that 1&1 Versatel offers 200MBit/s for 30€. I don't think that is expensive.