Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
by em-bee on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:15AM
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it does kind of make sense if you consider that roads and rail lines are good places to put data cables, and that you have to dig up roads for the cables to be placed. so having the authority do do so within one ministry sounds like a good idea.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
by terminalhealth on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:15AM
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Fair point, but they do invoke this ludicrous metaphor of the data highway, also why isn't it then simply called "infrastructure". There are surely other large scale planning decisions that could be subsumed e.g. pipelines, power lines etc.; why would they not be mentioned?