Telecommunication in Germany is a price-gouging, customer-abusing, mafia-like cartel that is taking the piss every step of the way. It's cheaper for me to have

Telecommunication in Germany is a price-gouging, customer-abusing, mafia-like cartel that is taking the piss every step of the way. It's cheaper for me to have a foreign mobile provider than to take any local contract. I get more data volume, and much cheaper EU in & out calls than anything that can be found here, and I can network-hop to get semi-decent LTE coverage, as, where I live, each provider seems to be covering a different area. After years and years of appalling DSL speeds (think < 5 Mbits/s) and no alternative except Vodafone LTE @ 50 euros/month for 10 GB of data, the (local?) government came up with subsidies for the first provider bringing glass-fiber to local towns. Ha! At once, they were all rushing to lay down fibers.. But, the subsidies were only for connections up to the local relays, not for bring glass fiber to the local customers. So once the scramble to the relays was finished, nothing else was done. Two years down the line, slowly, you can start paying (1500 euros) for a connection to your door that should come in the coming months. And the breath-taking connection speed of 100 Mbits symmetric. Which, granted, is a good improvement for casual browsing, but not quite good enough for businesses.