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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
That map illustrates the point completely - masses of rural coverage yet fairly little around some of the biggest built up areas.
In case you forgot that's the way it was intended to be, the government forced them to provide extensive rural coverage before they could begin covering cities. The same sort of regulatory incentive we have here with public funding for rural build-out and not urban hotspots which the providers are already clamoring to cover among themselves.
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Okay, although looking at a map of Germany that shows Dusseldorf, Munich, Dresden, Hanover, Stuttgart, Berlin etc covered by the purple on that map while the south-west of the country with no large cities is somewhat empty confuses.
How about
https://www.telefonica.de/fixed/news...re-on-air.html ?
Those well-known rural areas Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Nuremberg, Leipzig, and Düsseldorf being the first covered by Telefonica.
I can't say I know the regulatory background to Deutsche Telekom's LTE deployment beyond that because they didn't **** all their money away at the start of the century they didn't end up having to sell their mobile arm to not go bankrupt and have spent a fair chunk of change on LTE. Their VDSL rollout covered less of Germany than BT covered and I believe LTE was in part a replacement for fixed services.
A completely different scenario to the UK and FTTP where we just have a telco that would rather spend money on football rights than infrastructure and is probably best having the retail unit spun off from the rest so that they can set about trying to be Sky without handing Wayne Rooney et al the network repair and upgrade cash.