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Re:Germany is downgrading by luckystarr on Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:10AM (#5643906)
> 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.

Re:Germany is downgrading by mikecsh on Thursday May 02, 2013 @08:27AM (#5643983)
No, but you should assume that your ISP will choose it's fiber/DSL/whatever rollout strategy to maximise it's own profitability.
Re:Germany is downgrading by claudius on Thursday May 02, 2013 @09:18AM (#5644251)
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.