Re:Germany is downgrading
by claudius on Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:04AM
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Don’t live in a rural area then. With the money it takes to connect a few homes in the middle of nowhere to the high-speed network, you can easily equip many more with fiber in the middle of a decently sized city.
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Re:Germany is downgrading
by randomdata on Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:10AM
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Which is kind of funny because here in rural Canada we have access to fibre in farmhouses, but if you look to the neighbouring cities it is almost non-existant in residential areas.
Re:Germany is downgrading
by luckystarr on Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:10AM
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> Don’t live in a rural area then.
So I should choose my preferred living place on the premise of maximizing profitability for my ISP? I don't think so.
No, but you should assume that your ISP will choose it's fiber/DSL/whatever rollout strategy to maximise it's own profitability.
And even if it gets subsidies (which is the case here), I would expect it to spend the public’s money well instead of building kilometres upon kilometres of wiring to connect those three farm houses in the Black Forest.