[toyg]

> I can't talk about Italy

Then (most respectfully) don't :) That area in central Italy is mountainous, not particularly significant from an industrial perspective, and hence poorly covered by wireless data networks, whereas ADSL is pretty ubiquitous.

[rurban]

Austria is far more mountainous than Italy. But what doesn't add up is that only the bigger cities there have proper LTE coverage, the small towns only G3 or G2. But even G3 would be better than the WiFi on broken 2Mb copper cables in the earth.

[delcaran]

Nope, not in Italy. Here with 3G you can barely load google on mobile (at least, that is my case). If I don't see an H+ on my phone I don't even bother to try going online.

[toyg]

But the point is that G3 will saturate and cannot be used at the same time as you talk, so any additional connection is welcome.

[rurban]

Yes, but my point was that with an earth quake (>6 richter) the copper earth lines will likely be more broken than slow G3 air lines.