One of the top twenty political complaints going on in Germany presently...is internet speed.
Once you get beyond Wiesbaden, or Bonn, or Munich (the metropolitan areas)....going into 'dorfs' (smaller villages of 1k to 2k people)....you find that speed on the internet simply doesn't exist.
In some areas, there's tons of potential for business expansion....if you just had fiber-optic cable installed.
HR (our public TV for Hessen) picked up the topic today.
They interviewed some private companies who had contracts ready to go, with government grants as part of the deal....to bring fiber-optic cable into smaller towns.
The general reaction? Negative.
In the town of Langgones (12k in population)....only 40-percent of the public were interested.
Chief reason? What they found was that older Germans had no need for faster internet.
You need a minimum of 40-percent of folks to sign up for this, and failing that....the company can't profit off the deal....so they skip the town.
For young people in these rural regions? This is one of those enhancements that would keep them living there. Otherwise, they might as well pack up and move to the suburbs of Darmstadt or Wiesbaden.
Politically, it's a major deal that several parties have attached to....to bring fiber-optic to the general population (even if they don't want it).
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