[Anita_kiss]

A bit inaccurate. Deutsche Telekom AG owns the majority of the Infrastructure and outright refuses to invest in it. Why should they? For them its simply not lucrative to install fiber for a place like Brandenburg with a population density of 84 people/ Km²

The Goverment tried to fix it by forcing the Telekom to allow other companies to use their lines. So now you can chose who you pay for your internet access thats served over 50 year old copper (Not even an exaggeration for some parts)

The Telekom still decides what, if anything, happends to the lines. There is a constant haggle between goverment and Telekom where the goverment is basically begging the Telekom to invest in the infrastructure.

The Telekom doesnt want to and tries to find cheap workarounds (vectoring) that simply don't cut it and also damages the competition. As long as they can serve overpriced Internet they are happy.

Now that the problem has been ignored for several decades it has become too expensive and complicated.

This is the prime example for what happends when you privatize a vital part of your infrastructure and hand it to a profit oriented company. But that does not stop people from wanting to privatize roads and water too.