> In Germany, for example, gigabyte connections—which handle more than 1,000 megabits per second—are rare. Probably gigabit connections? More than 1000 megabit

> In Germany, for example, gigabyte connections—which handle more than 1,000 megabits per second—are rare. Probably gigabit connections? More than 1000 megabits / second requires hardware that is still rather uncommon in consumer grade routers and computers. > Telecom giants in France and Portugal were already rolling out all-fiber networks early in the decade, in keeping with a 2010 European Union report that recommended that national carriers invest in fiber. How Fast 5G Mobile Internet Feels But Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s dominant operator, took a less costly route in 2012, upgrading its existing copper network through a technology called vectoring. Such kind of stupid short term greed driven decisions slow down progress by decades. I've seen somewhere, that Australia suffered a similar problem, where government decided that copper will be good enough, and halted deployment of fiber optics. And now it's becoming a big problem.