Are you speaking about mobile or internet to the home? Also, which neighbors and do you have a specific comparison? As @zmix states, my experience with interne

Are you speaking about mobile or internet to the home? Also, which neighbors and do you have a specific comparison? As @zmix states, my experience with internet to the home is pretty good and reasonable (to me anyway). It's even a little faster in FFM (120 down from Unity and you actually get that whens speed testing too) for the same price. I've lived in Austria and Switzerland and I don't find that they are "crush"ing Germany. Switzerland offers a tantalizing 1gb down service, but when you actually plug in an address it's hard to find buildings that are wired for that (and they seem to know it because the plans that step down from that are only nominally less even though the speed is massively different). Speaking specifically of mobile, I don't find access to be that expensive (unless you go with Telekom), but I will second (or third) the lack of coverage. I have O2 and find that it basically doesn't work outside of cities. The train ride between FFM and Mannheim is a signal desert for me which is crazy because this is a very busy corridor. If this is what you meant by access, then I would probably agree since mobile data coverage outside of cities seems to at least exist in other places.