Promises made 2009: Widespread broadband for everyone by 2010 2010: At least 50 MBit/s for most households by 2014 2011: 50 MBit/s everywhere by 2018 2014:

Promises made 2009: Widespread broadband for everyone by 2010 2010: At least 50 MBit/s for most households by 2014 2011: 50 MBit/s everywhere by 2018 2014: Let's hope we can reach this 2015: Digital Agenda -> 50 Mbit/s by 2018 2016: The goal cannot be reached 2016: Gigabit nets by 2025, fastest internet on the planet 2018: The goal cannot be reached I have a whopping 3 Mbit/s at my home. It's so slow the technician that wanted to sell me a 10 MBit line didn't believe me when I said that I decline because it's not possible. Mind you, I live in an area where most houses are from 2010 or newer so it's not like they had no opportunity to set up decent connections. On my daily train commute there are two 10 minute patches where I cannot make phone calls...the list goes on. Pretty embarrassing for a so called industrial nation. I had better connections in every single country I have been to. A common excuse that you hear is that Telekom had plans to roll out fibre everywhere in the 1990s but had to cut that plan due to the cost of setting up a phone system in East Germany. tl;dr: it's pretty bad