By now, Germany could have 100M or 1G internet in every home. Major cities could have been connected in 1990! With that infrastructure, you can offer wlan every

By now, Germany could have 100M or 1G internet in every home. Major cities could have been connected in 1990! With that infrastructure, you can offer wlan everywhere and role out GSM much much faster. With such an internet, smartphones would have been adopted much earlier. The digitalization would have started much earlier. Consumers would have poured money into phones much earlier. We are living at least 5-10 years in the past because of that decision. Whatever was paid with that donation, I don't think it's worse than killing an early adoption of the internet.