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by pixelpoet 1052 days ago
If there's one thing Germany is uniquely terrible at, it's internet connectivity. Absolutely mindblowingly bad, speaking as someone who grew up with Telkom monopoly in South Africa in the 90s.
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100% agree. I was in Frankfurt last week for the first time in many years (I live in Asia now). Roamed in Germany's largest and most expensive cell phone network, Deutsche Telekom T-Mobile.

In the city centre near Goetheplatz I had... drumm roll. EDGE. 2.5G

In July 2023.

This is the home of DE-CIX, the European continents largest internet exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX