[shakermakr]

Brit living in Germany here. I just bought a new home, and it came with Fiber to the Home. Great I thought! Then I tried to get connected...

I have zero choice of ISP: I had to first go to a small company who maintain my line, who then pointed me at another company for the contract.

Though rated at 1gbit, I can only get max 500mbit from my ISP, and then that costs a whooping 90 EUR a month, without any phone or TV service.

In the end I took 300mbit at just under 70 EUR a month. Happy enough here, Netflix is great in HDR, but the costs and choice are ridiculous even when you have full fiber in Germany...

[patrickk]

I'll be moving within Germany at some point in the next 12 months, and one of my top considerations will be what broadband options already exist in the area, because of the reasons you mention. If you move to an area with slow/no broadband, you'll be stuck in that situation for years.