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The part that is completely missing in that article - and could be interesting to people from outside from germany - is that this shouldn't be necessary if you
by onli 12y ago
The part that is completely missing in that article - and could be interesting to people from outside from germany - is that this shouldn't be necessary if you follow the official worldview. The ISPs are obliged to provide High-Speed Internet to the whole of Germany, but the government is not forcing them to do that, instead letting them promise and promise again to make that happen.
They do it somewhat with LTE, which they have to roll out first in rural areas before being allowed to go into the big cities (where the money is). But in the DSL-market, where there is no such force applied, they simply don't do it. Promises are worth nothing and the market doesn't succeed in providing basic infrastructure.
- sentenza 12y agoThe moment that LTE started happening, people realized that they were not going to get decent internet. Because "rural" in Germany includes villages with 1000 inhabitants in it. Just because the big Telcos don't consider it economically viable to invest there, these 1000 people would have to share the badndwidth of LTE among themselves indefinitely. So of course they became active. (Note, some communities already started to get involved in their own internet connectivity long before LTE was rolled out in Germany.) Funny enough, once there is a decent alternative by a local/small provider, the big ones also start showing up.