> Telekom has little incentive to invest in upgrading its infrastructure because it has to lease it out to its competitors anyway. that's not always true. It's

> Telekom has little incentive to invest in upgrading its infrastructure because it has to lease it out to its competitors anyway. that's not always true. It's still not clear if they are allowed to upgrade without putting new cables in. if the last-mile is on copper you can replace it with vectoring (FTTC+Vectoring) the problem is that it is only legally allowed if there is a second network, because LLU and vectoring is currently incompatible. and the telekom of germany needs to sublicense. and fttb (or better) is basically not feasible. (exceptions prove the rule) actually all cities between karlsruhe and freiburg will be gradually changed to use fttc+vectoring which will improve data rates up to 300mbit/40mbit (most often to 100/40 or 50/10)