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No monopoly. Only for cable internet, which may be a possible argument. For landline internet (DSL), there's plenty of alternatives.

• Retric 11mo ago
  High speed internet is a market not just internet access. Email might not care that your on a DSL connection but a streamer can’t generally use DSL as a substitute.
  • namibj 11mo ago
    They mean VDSL; that's 100~200 Mbit down and 10~24~50 Mbit up.
    • Retric 11mo ago
      VDSL2 can hit those speeds in optimal conditions, but at the end of last year ~14% of Germans have internet under 10Mbps and ~17% where 10-30Mbps.
    • account42 11mo ago
      Which is laughably bad in 2025.
• lxgr 11mo ago
  Unfortunately, having a landline capable of DSL is no longer the default in Germany. Some apartment buildings exlusively offer DOCSIS via a single provider (as there's never been any unbundling of the DOCSIS "local loop"; presumably under the assumption that a landline will always be available anyway?). If that one provider is oversubscribed, you're pretty much out of luck.