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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by corty on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:19PM (#23875705)
Germany did quite a lot of ISDN over fibre to the home in the 1990s, most of the recabling in the east after reunufication was done that way.

However, they made the mistake of burying active components along with the fibre strands that only spoke ISDN. And of course no tubes. For upgrades they ripped it out again and built copper when DSL was en vogue... If they hadn't fucked up this badly, probably due to corruption, Germany would have had 20% broadband fibre coverage instantly 20 years ago

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by C1sc0cat on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#23897596)
Ah I see thank you I recall years ago when I did work on the international side my boss making a comment about ISDN and Germany and I now see the issue they backed themselves into.

The UK could have had much better fibre if back in the 90's Mrs Thatcher's government had given BT a 20 year payback and allowed BT to implement its Fibre plans.

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