> The article keeps mentioning this company repeatedly. Is Deutsche Telekom really the only game in town across the whole country? Pretty much, yes. "Deutsche

> The article keeps mentioning this company repeatedly. Is Deutsche Telekom really the only game in town across the whole country? Pretty much, yes. "Deutsche Telekom" is the company that came out of the former state telecom company. So they own the national telephone network. Appart from a few local networks the only alternative is Internet through the tv cable network. However that never got complete coverage in Germany. So for a lot of people Telekom is the only company that can offer them Internet connectivity. All the others are just reseller offers. Also there have been some pretty nasty strategies where they actively prevent other companies from building parallel infrastructure: Places where Telekom didn't offer fast Internet for years, then a competitor builds a fiber network and coincidentally just shortly afterwards Telekom offers fast Internet, so the competitor looses because he can't get as much income as expected.