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Meanwhile in Germany: Houses still getting copper internet cables this year (and probably the next 10 too).
Thanks, Kohl.
Literally. For those who don't know it was Helmut Kohl (chancellor during the reunification) who stopped a 30-year project to lay fiber throughout Germany to instead favour copper wires to help his old pal Leo Kirch build up a private TV network to rival the mostly left leaning public broadcast. And I thought one of his family members owned a copper plant or so but I wasn't able to find an article about that.
Same in Australia. The libnats (right-leaning) broke the fibre-optic rollout by claiming it would be too expensive, and replaced it in non-metro areas with wireless, claiming 25Mbps was adequate. They didn't mention that slow internet would benefit the Murdoch -owned Foxtel satellite services. And here we are now with internet services worse than some poorer countries.
I chose Starlink because I will never get fibre optic, my only broadband option is geo-synch satellite, with speed and data caps, and 600ms latency.
you can't expect more from T aka DT... Here in budapest i could only get copper cable T net, if the romanian (Digi) wouldn't give us optical cable (however orban already chased them away, so i expect worse, since orban's firm which bought their network, doubled the subscription price in 1 year).