The moment that LTE started happening, people realized that they were not going to get decent internet. Because "rural" in Germany includes villages with 1000 i

The 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.