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by hiAndrewQuinn 638 days ago
The EU invested pretty heavily into making sure even very remote parts of Europe, like northern Finland, have great Internet. I was very pleasantly surprised when I was able to work from home at the in-laws'!
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The US invested very heavily too, it's just that the money poof! Disappeared!
Because of these new subsidised fiber deployments, it's not uncommon anymore for rural/semi-rural areas to have better connectivity than urban or sub-urban areas, which is bit awkward.
thouh there are places near berlin that have to make due with 16mbps dsl