hope that netwrok operators will get the idea that the subscription has to be affordable as well
5 years ago, optic fiber was considered a luxury good in Germany,and the number of people willing to pay exorbitant prices to join the 21-st century was higher than the supply
Now, since booking a connection becomes possible for more and more Germans, operators have to ask themselves why 2/3 of people choose to not get a optic fiber connection when they have the oportunity
Moved from Australia where I thought our internet was behind the western world. Only to move to Germany and have 3mbps unthrottled during peak times and 10mbps at its fastest.
7,5 million connections, means less than 10% of the German households. Out of it only 2,5 mill are actually connected and using the network?!
It will take at least another year to build and utilize the network fully.
This is Bulgaria, Romanian or Poland 15 years ago!
So yeah picking up but not really going strong.
Come on, please let us still have one thing better you.
Yeah… no. In my hometown they ripped open 90% of all streets to put new fibre cables in the ground…. and didn’t connect them. So we technically have fibre but also not.
Just in time for 5g to kill Internet lines and modems dead.
When start ups will begin piggy backing the 5g infrastructure to bring you wireless speeds ranging from 50Mbps to 1Gbps at much cheaper rates this will be a new do’h moment for German digital infrastructure.
Germany has waited too long for digitisation and instead of trying to look ahead to the next generation of technology it is instead catching up to the end of the current generation.
Currently 5g is faster than WiFi in 7/8 of the leading 5g countries.
This is a waste of money and time now.
Yes. I moved to Germany (Munich) 5 years ago and was saddled with 10/2 DSL in a 14 year old neighborhood within the city limits. Late last year, after much begging by my neighbors, we have fiber. I’m now happy with 600/200 from MNET.
I recently moved and am glad I got out of the fiber optic contract.
Got a new contract with 100Mb/s and while it is slower than the 400Mb/s I had before, it is also significantly cheaper and it actually works. Fiber optic had problems pretty much ever week. In some cases not working for several days.
Welcome to 2010
And all of this just because [some CDU politicians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schwarz-Schilling#Critics) were scared of public television being too left-wing, so they decided to set up commercially owned cable TV instead of following through with the previous administration’s plans to set up fibre optic connections everywhere.
How a single guy’s paranoia can fuck up an entire country’s internet connectivity for decades.
Don’t worry, by the time you are done, a new standard will be out 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Someone here in Germany once told me that when the wall came down and all the easy-to-monitor Stasi lines were ripped out of East Germany, they had the choice to put in fibre optics, but chose not to.
They could’ve done that so easily, and then just do West Germany, but no, they put in whatever lines West Germany had
then DSL came and they had basically do everything again across all of Germany.
And then now fibre optics.
They could’ve saved themselves a lot of work.
But I never really knew if that story is true or not (though, knowing Germany, it wouldn’t surprise me if that story was true)
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hope that netwrok operators will get the idea that the subscription has to be affordable as well
5 years ago, optic fiber was considered a luxury good in Germany,and the number of people willing to pay exorbitant prices to join the 21-st century was higher than the supply
Now, since booking a connection becomes possible for more and more Germans, operators have to ask themselves why 2/3 of people choose to not get a optic fiber connection when they have the oportunity
source:[https://www.vatm.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/VATM_TK-Marktstudie_281021_f.pdf](https://www.vatm.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/VATM_TK-Marktstudie_281021_f.pdf)
Moved from Australia where I thought our internet was behind the western world. Only to move to Germany and have 3mbps unthrottled during peak times and 10mbps at its fastest.
7,5 million connections, means less than 10% of the German households. Out of it only 2,5 mill are actually connected and using the network?!
It will take at least another year to build and utilize the network fully.
This is Bulgaria, Romanian or Poland 15 years ago!
So yeah picking up but not really going strong.
Come on, please let us still have one thing better you.
Yeah… no. In my hometown they ripped open 90% of all streets to put new fibre cables in the ground…. and didn’t connect them. So we technically have fibre but also not.
Just in time for 5g to kill Internet lines and modems dead.
When start ups will begin piggy backing the 5g infrastructure to bring you wireless speeds ranging from 50Mbps to 1Gbps at much cheaper rates this will be a new do’h moment for German digital infrastructure.
Germany has waited too long for digitisation and instead of trying to look ahead to the next generation of technology it is instead catching up to the end of the current generation.
Currently 5g is faster than WiFi in 7/8 of the leading 5g countries.
This is a waste of money and time now.
Yes. I moved to Germany (Munich) 5 years ago and was saddled with 10/2 DSL in a 14 year old neighborhood within the city limits. Late last year, after much begging by my neighbors, we have fiber. I’m now happy with 600/200 from MNET.
I recently moved and am glad I got out of the fiber optic contract.
Got a new contract with 100Mb/s and while it is slower than the 400Mb/s I had before, it is also significantly cheaper and it actually works. Fiber optic had problems pretty much ever week. In some cases not working for several days.
Welcome to 2010
And all of this just because [some CDU politicians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schwarz-Schilling#Critics) were scared of public television being too left-wing, so they decided to set up commercially owned cable TV instead of following through with the previous administration’s plans to set up fibre optic connections everywhere.
How a single guy’s paranoia can fuck up an entire country’s internet connectivity for decades.
Don’t worry, by the time you are done, a new standard will be out 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Someone here in Germany once told me that when the wall came down and all the easy-to-monitor Stasi lines were ripped out of East Germany, they had the choice to put in fibre optics, but chose not to.
They could’ve done that so easily, and then just do West Germany, but no, they put in whatever lines West Germany had
then DSL came and they had basically do everything again across all of Germany.
And then now fibre optics.
They could’ve saved themselves a lot of work.
But I never really knew if that story is true or not (though, knowing Germany, it wouldn’t surprise me if that story was true)