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I was curious and just looked it up: Germany reached 36.8% in 2024 (https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2024/20241205_Giga.html ht

• hocuspocus 1mo ago
  And in places where FTTH is available, you pay more for 250/100 Mbps than symmetrical 10 Gbps in Switzerland.
• nixass 1mo ago
  Not sure if I'm surprised negatively or positively by the fact. My apartment (Germany) was built in 2017 and coax in every room was the choice planners made :_)
  • ketzu 1mo ago
    Because back then cable TV was a common inclusion in apartments that could be unilaterally be added to "Nebenkosten" and was therefor sold to landlords as such a nice benefit by cable providers.
    • stephbook 1mo ago
      My cable cost $25 and offered 200mbps — 8 years ago. So it wasn't that bad of a deal. 400mbps was possible.
    • nixass 1mo ago
      I know it was common, and it's sad state of things if cable is a common thing in frickin' 2017
  • qmmmur 1mo ago
    Collusion between Virgin and other companies and the developers. Just plain old corruption and ineptitude. Our 2019 new build apartment had coax too, which resulted in some really crap internet that was expensive.
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• tchalla 1mo ago
  Germany is planning for 2035. Everything is now pushed to 2035 - rail infrastructure , digitisation, removal of fax as an official method etc.